Petra Himmel, journalist and creator of www.GolfSustainable.com

Petra Himmel is a German journalist and the founder of Golf Sustainable, an online platform dedicated to covering sustainability issues in golf from a journalistic perspective. She spent more than two decades reporting on international professional golf for outlets before launching Golf Sustainable in 2019 . Her work as a correspondent took her around the world to cover tournaments, but she increasingly noticed a gap between the environmental challenges facing the sport and the lack of informed, independent reporting on solutions.

Frustrated by what she saw as insufficient attention to climate adaptation, water scarcity, and sustainable course management, Himmel created Golf Sustainable as a platform to bridge that gap. The site focuses on best practices, on-site research, and practical examples golf courses from around the world. Petra emphasizes that climate change "doesn't really care if we care or not," and argues that golf clubs must prepare for extreme weather, energy self-sufficiency, and resource constraints or risk economic survival .

Himmel's perspective is grounded in a pragmatic, solutions-oriented approach rather than doom-laden warnings. She points to urban golf courses, renewable energy integration, and the reduction of plastic use in equipment as areas where the industry can evolve, while acknowledging that most clubs lack resources for comprehensive sustainability strategies and benefit more from incremental projects . Her journalism aims to make complex sustainability topics accessible to club managers, golfers, and industry stakeholders, and she has become a recognized speaker and workshop leader on sustainable communication in golf .