Golf courses, despite occupying large green spaces, are not necessarily good for the environment. Land is often cleared to make way for a fairway and maintaining the pristine turf often requires a lot of water, regular mowing and the spraying of fertilizers and pesticides – none of which is good for biodiversity.
In the US, with the number of course closures outweighing new openings every year since 2006, some are questioning how we should use these huge spaces – and asking whether, instead of golf, nature should be left to run its course.
Conservation nonprofits and local authorities are looking to acquire golf courses that have been abandoned due to high maintenance costs, low player numbers or other reasons, and repurpose them into landscapes that boost biodiversity and build natural defenses against climate change.
I say this as a man born in Pinehurst, North Carolina: Let that goddamn retarded sport die a pathetic unmourned death.
Would love to see both golf and that ableist slur die in a fire.
Let that god-damned r-slur die a pathetic unmourned death.
Please don’t use the word death, it triggers me
Having compassion for people who have mental handicaps and family/friends of them is definitely worth mocking.
If I had said “stupid” “moronic” “idiotic” or “brain-dead” instead of “retarded” you wouldn’t have batted an eyelash. I’m sure you can find better things to do than arbitrarily police other people’s language on the internet, like chewing on the inside of your cheek or licking your bathroom sink drain pipe.