Kate Torgersen

Kate has over 16 years of practical and academic experience in the golf course and conservation industries working on several highly ranked Australian golf courses.

Her career began with an apprenticeship in Turf management where she soon discovered a passion and need to assist and showcase the good golf courses can provide to the environment and community.

Gaining extensive experience in the conservation industry Kate has managed several large projects converting mown areas into native areas.

Her passion to educate has been showcased in the regular environmental articles written for the turfgrass management journal, through seminars and presentations within the industry and wider sports sustainability community.

Kate developed Environmental Golf Solutions to share her extensive knowledge and experiences that will assist the broader golf industry in sustainability and environmental management.

Monina Gilbey

Monina is a garden designer and educator, as well as the former Biodiversity Manager at Glenelg Golf Club.

Monina is passionate about Adelaide’s local flora and fauna and the contribution that golf courses make to urban biodiversity. Working with the Glenelg Golf team, Monina, a relative newcomer to golf, helped to raise the national environmental profile of the club and has won multiple awards. She has delivered presentations at local, national and international conferences.

In 2022, Monina was co-winner of the Claude Crockford Environment and Sustainability Award – Monina is the second woman to win the award in 24 years and was the first woman to appear in the Syngenta Turfectionist series.

Monina was instrumental in the club becoming finalists in the biodiversity category of the 2023 National Banksia Sustainability Awards. In 2024 received the National Parks and Leisure Environmental Stewardship Award and became a Councillor on the board of Parks and Leisure Australia SA/NT.