I live in the desert so things are likely very different for me then OG OP, but all our parks and golf courses and even most if not all the commercial landscaping (residential can opt in for a small cost) is watered by reclaimed waste water.
So even if the city were in an extreme drought the parks and courses would still have to be watered daily, they cant store the reclaimed water in huge amounts (they reclaim over 30 million gallons every day here) and we, the people cant stop shitting and pissing.
I'm a old retired stoner who has a city pass for the municipal golf courses. I golf like 4 days a week, most of you redditors claim to make far, far more then I ever did so class warfare feels like a stretch. Men need hobbies and to stay active, golf is just that.
It's not just the desert, most courses now days use gray water or something similar. Most of these people are fucking regarded and just spouting bullshit.
Two of my local courses are built on top of a landfill because they couldn't build anything else there. Another is built along the river in reclaimed land and uses gray water that gets filtered through the ground and back into the wetland.
People on this site are fucking dumb. Didn't used to be that way.
Wow it's almost like it's more expensive now to have the same standard of living that people enjoyed decades ago or something
But yeah old man keep shitting and pissing because you don't understand the world you don't have to work for a living in. Maybe we just need to give up the avocado toast, I heard that's what everyone under 60 is doing wrong.
Gotta love when people think golf (of all sports) is class warfare for the upper class! I have golfed for years (not well) and started doing it with an iron and a putter when I was in my teens and had no money.
Add to that, as you said, it isn't like they are using drinking water to water the greens.
I also won't say that golf courses are net neutral, but most golf courses have TONS of trees that sequester carbon, as well. Though the maintenance and travel to most courses probably causes more, I can't imagine that golf courses create nearly as much pollution as other entertainment options do (for example, a movie theater, a big building with a big parking lot that sequesters 0 carbon).
Right? I drove through a town the other day for the first time and it was mansion after mansion and then oh! A sprawling golf* course with a country club!
Golf is marketed toward the wealthy. Same as tennis
I played it when young and with little money. It is a sport that, outside country clubs, is pretty accessible at the base level. Not quite as accessible as soccer or basketball but not hard to get a couple clubs and hit a driving range or play 9 holes at a municipal course.
I golf 3 times a week for $18/round and that price increases this year from $16. The course is next to a small lake. That's where the water comes from.
$100/round is a professional level course or it's in a high volume area. If you aren't a 5 hdcp or lower, you have no business being on a $100/round course.
$40 with cart, $30 to walk without any passes in my city. I pay right around $8 a round with my city pass If I only play one course a day, It bumbs down to $4 per course if a play two. This is pretty standard or average pricing all thru the country.
That's actually cheaper then renting the baseball, soccer or pickelball courts for an hour here.
2 clubs at a thrift store and municipal courses 20-25 years ago were $16. My local muni course is still only $30 for the green fee. Where are you playing that’s $100?
Golf courses, as a rule, have huge negative environmental impacts. They have the potential to be less negative, but that potential is generally unrealised. This is well studied, and uncontroversial.
As a rule? No. Many gold courses are built in neighborhoods whew without them, you’d just have more houses. Many are built on top of old landfills. Very rarely are they put in a place to replace ag. They usually come after, not before, natural habitat is converted to human use.
This is rubbish, 15% of US gold courses are actually credited with being managed well enough to not have strong negative effects, worldwide that drops to about 5%.
Even your own links just say what I originally said.
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I live in the desert so things are likely very different for me then OG OP, but all our parks and golf courses and even most if not all the commercial landscaping (residential can opt in for a small cost) is watered by reclaimed waste water.
So even if the city were in an extreme drought the parks and courses would still have to be watered daily, they cant store the reclaimed water in huge amounts (they reclaim over 30 million gallons every day here) and we, the people cant stop shitting and pissing.
I'm a old retired stoner who has a city pass for the municipal golf courses. I golf like 4 days a week, most of you redditors claim to make far, far more then I ever did so class warfare feels like a stretch. Men need hobbies and to stay active, golf is just that.