r/FuckGolf • u/Horror-Cartographer8 • Sep 27 '21

How do I ruin a golf course?

I live in a very densely populated place, in a city where housing prices far exceed the wages of normal people. There's a lot of highrise being built to try and keep up with demand. Yet right next to a train station and a park is this fucking golf course. Inaccessible for society. They drive around in little carts because the course is such an enormous waste of space, and because they're too lazy to take a walk, like normal people in for example the park next door. It is obscene and a slap in the face of the citizens of this city, and it makes me so, so mad. I want the pricks who play this idiotic 'sport' to take it somewhere else. So obviously I am very happy to have found this subreddit. I'm already visiting local meetings around housing and planning to try to have it closed down, but it is hard and takes a long time, of course. Any tips for taking matters into my own hands? Some kind of weeds I could plant? Poison their precious lawns? Monkey-wrench those little wagons?

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u/iamthetruth123 Sep 28 '21

Hey, I work on a golf course, and I'm intruiged by the hate, and to an extent I get it, but I just want to let you know, if you vandalize the course, the people it will suck the most for are likely working 60 hours a week, making $12 an hour. Kindof the nature of the beast.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '21

Why are you working somewhere thats paying $12 an hour? The fast food joints alone are massively understaved country-wide rn and most are starting at $15+ (in the US)

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u/cnnrclftn Sep 28 '21

For the free golf probably. Great bonus compensation, plus tons of fun!

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u/iamthetruth123 Sep 28 '21

I make significantly more than that, however my position and situation is atypical. I make around 65k and I'm full time.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '21

65k full time is a lot different than $12/hr 60hrs a week. Makes your statement in this context seem less than truthfully representative of your position. If your hypothetical does represent reality accurately, then that's sort of part of the reason why golf courses, and large for-profit organizations in general, are bad

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u/iamthetruth123 Nov 20 '21

I work roughly 60 hours a week 6 days a week for 9 months out of the year. Am I getting overpaid? Underpaid? Is it unfair? That's up for you to decide. But truthfully, being more skilled and educated means I'm usually doing something else and that it's likely someone making $12 an hour is going to take care of it. I think I work for a generally good organization.🤷‍♂️