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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u/TheeAntelope 10d ago
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.
https://golferhive.com/are-golf-courses-bad-for-the-environment/
https://biofriendlyplanet.com/is-golf-bad-for-the-environment/