CourseCo, the Bay Area-based golf management and development company which oversees Callippe Preserve Golf Course in Pleasanton, has been awarded an Environmental Leader in Golf Award (ELGA) for superior environmental stewardship at two Bay Area golf courses, including Callippe.
CourseCo was among 15 ELGA chapter award winners, and also took the national award for Metropolitan Golf Links in Oakland. The award was announced in Golf Digest magazine and the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America.
It recognizes overall course management and environmental excellence in several areas, including water and resource conservation, water quality management, integrated pest-management, wildlife/habitat management and education/outreach.
Callippe was developed as part of a cooperative effort to create an 18-hole golf course, hiking and equestrian trails, endangered species habitat, wetland establishment and dedicated grazing land.
The golf course has also been a certified Audubon Sanctuary golf course since it opened in 2005. The course site is a protected habitat for the federally endangered Callippe Silverspot Butterfly and the California Tiger Salamander, and the federally threatened California Red Legged Frog.
