This conversation is only focused on land use. Think of the wasted resources from golf and the pollution to waterways as well. We all have microscopic plastic particles inside our bodies now from the water we drink. Marine life and marine predators are feeling the effects much worse.
There’s a track in East Naples called Forest Glen that introduced paspalum. After they put it in, members funded a full green complex redesign because Every. Putt. Was. Straight. You still can’t talk to a resident there without hearing them bitch about it, and you can tell on the first green, still. It takes a lot of getting used to, and getting unused to for Bermuda going back.
Thats crazy. Every time i’ve been to florida, reading break and grain was always a chore. i’d never heard of putts literally breaking uphill due to grain before.
Not really relevant to the rest of the thread (though it looks like that went out the window pretty quickly), but Tripp Davis is doing OKCGCC. Just in case you were curious!
Where do I sign up to go diving for golf balls?
Truth. But leaving a Top Flite out there for 100 years is no eco-picnic, either.
I’d be interested in the use of golf courses for effluent water. I know there are quite a few uses for it, but using it on a golf course actually returns it to the water table in a filtered form where as industrial uses don’t. Gotta be pretty rare.
Regarding density. It is a little weird when a golf course is in an area strapped for housing but at the time of development that was cheap land. If you take away the golf course do you take away the large houses and land around it as well?
The Open this year had a no single use plastics thing for water bottles. You bought a reusable branded metal bottle and there were places all over the course to fill it up with drinking water so obviously there is a move to cut down on this going on.
#JustDoIT
short time reader, first time poster here…this thread has opened my eyes on a subject of golf i did not even think people considered so its very cool to read through…hope the conversation gets recognized on a national scale soon (which it looks like some folks are trying)…carry on
Think of the wasted pixels from that photo. Da-yum!
I’m sure I could google this, but laziness compels me to ask whether most courses use potable water for watering the grass, etc? There are obviously levels of dirty between potable water, grey water, and waste water, but using potable water throughout a course seems like a huge waste.
A course called Hazlehead in Aberdeen had a pitch and putt with a sign that said “Don’t lick your balls” due to water chemicals they likely used on the grass. I would love to see that on the first tee at Augusta.
a golf course is probably one of the last places in the world you want to walk barefoot
(a heroin den is probably above it, though.)
I’ve done it hundreds of times without issue.
Probably what stunted your growth.
The type of water varies depending on available sources buy gray water is a popular option.
Dang, i thought 5’11" was pretty good.
Guess it’s the whopping 130lbs that made me think you’re 5’4"
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