Kiskiack Golf Club
Golf courses across Virginia and the mid-Atlantic are finding new ways to innovate when it comes to sustainability practices on the course thanks in part to aluminum bottles. While most courses focus on water going into the ground, Virginia Artesian is helping golf courses think about water that goes into golfers.
Located in Hanover, Virginia, the father-and-son team behind the bottled water company is providing aluminum bottles to golf courses across the region. The aluminum bottles, which can be made with custom labels, are helping golf courses meet their environmental goals and boosting their bottom line.
“It’s great to hear that our aluminum bottles are helping courses meet their sustainability goals,” Virginia Artesian president Nick Brown (below, left) aid. “We love the impact it’s having on courses and events throughout the mid-Atlantic and we fully embrace the golf community’s support.”
The company recently supplied water to the BMW Pro-Am tournament in South Carolina, and their aluminum bottles are helping some golf courses with revenue as they are able to sell the aluminum bottles at a higher price point than traditional plastic bottles.
“We love the impact the bottles have had on our course,” said Vince Zangardi of Kiskiack Golf Club in Williamsburg. “Switching to aluminum provided a great way to meet our sustainability goals, as well as provide our guests with a unique way to hydrate.”
Zangardi says Kiskiack has made major leaps in recent years to be more environmentally friendly in ways that touch every aspect of the customer experience and go far beyond how the course is maintained. Along with the switch to aluminum bottles, they’ve made efforts to reduce their plastic use by switching to compostable food containers and replacing the traditional plastic bag and ice for beer with reusable coolers. The hardest switch to make though, was to aluminum bottles.
Zangardi says he conducted a long and extensive search to find an aluminum bottled water supplier for their course. That search proved to be mostly futile until he found Virginia Artesian as none of Zangardi’s other suppliers could provide what the course was looking for. Frustration turned to joy on discovering the company’s aluminum bottles and custom labels.
According to Virginia Artesian co-owner Steve Brown (below, right), the custom labels are popular among their clients.
“The custom labels help our clients with branding and marketing,” Brown said. “It’s wonderful that our clients can turn around and offer a custom, high-end experience to their own clients and guests.”
As golf courses become increasingly concerned about sustainability, water use and environmental impact, companies like Virginia Artesian will be bubbling up to fill the market demand.
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