That would limit where you can play golf to natural grasslands with grazing animals. Otherwise trees and shrubs would grow and make the sport as it is now impossible. Large open fairways don’t tend to occur naturally so the sport would be more like put-put maneuvering around trees with short strokes than long hundred yard drives that you see on modern courses.
From what I’ve seen most courses are on land that would naturally be forest if they weren’t watered and mowed regularly.
That’s how the first golf courses were
The first courses were made in scotland after it had mostly been deforested and turned to sheep grazing land, not natural untouched wilderness.
You’re right it could require some basic mowing and small scale deforestation in certain areas, we’re already in a fantastical thought experiment so perhaps grazing animals overpopulate to protect solar panels
But you certainly wouldn’t have a water concern and could just routinely keep it mowed
My city has won awards for how “eco friendly” their golf courses are, yet the two municipal golf courses still make up a majority of the pesticide use in our 160+ parks.
I’d add that enormous portions of farmland are used to grow excessive crops for animal agriculture – required because the second law of thermodynamics doesn’t stop for frozen tendies. We already have plenty of farmland for the farcically wasteful western standard diet, let alone for a reasonably efficient and healthy one.
Even if the equipment was free courses still cost money. If you made the courses free too then you’d either have tons of course traffic or a long wait list for tee times where you could probably only get one weekend round in every couple of months if your lucky. It would also put the maintenance cost for courses on the taxpayers which may not be worth it for how many people the course is serving.
Fundamentally golf has a capacity issue that prevents it from being a sport accessible to everyone. A course can only serve 1 group of a couple people per hole, otherwise it gets backed up. Compare a golf hole to a basketball court that can accommodate twice as many people on less then half the space with little to no maintenance cost.
There’s already plenty of productive arable land and humanity over produces food that it simply wastes
Make golf equipment free instead
golf courses need tremendous amount of water, so it would be better to turn it into arable land.
They actually don’t and you can just let them be natural
There’s plenty of arable land, more than we could ever need, it just needs to be used intelligently
Yeah, it’s not like golf courses accounted for 0.5% of all water use in the US from 2003–2005 or anything. They totally don’t use a disproportionate fuckton of water and are definitely a worthwhile use of land. Anything can be true if I just assert shit without substantiating it.
You don’t have to do that
you can just let them be natural and that’s how the first golf courses were and how many still are so you are not making any point
People have golf courses in the desert which uses lots of water but is not arable land, those would have to close obviously
That would limit where you can play golf to natural grasslands with grazing animals. Otherwise trees and shrubs would grow and make the sport as it is now impossible. Large open fairways don’t tend to occur naturally so the sport would be more like put-put maneuvering around trees with short strokes than long hundred yard drives that you see on modern courses.
From what I’ve seen most courses are on land that would naturally be forest if they weren’t watered and mowed regularly.
The first courses were made in scotland after it had mostly been deforested and turned to sheep grazing land, not natural untouched wilderness.
You’re right it could require some basic mowing and small scale deforestation in certain areas, we’re already in a fantastical thought experiment so perhaps grazing animals overpopulate to protect solar panels
But you certainly wouldn’t have a water concern and could just routinely keep it mowed
but. they. do!
My city has won awards for how “eco friendly” their golf courses are, yet the two municipal golf courses still make up a majority of the pesticide use in our 160+ parks.
I’d add that enormous portions of farmland are used to grow excessive crops for animal agriculture – required because the second law of thermodynamics doesn’t stop for frozen tendies. We already have plenty of farmland for the farcically wasteful western standard diet, let alone for a reasonably efficient and healthy one.
Even if the equipment was free courses still cost money. If you made the courses free too then you’d either have tons of course traffic or a long wait list for tee times where you could probably only get one weekend round in every couple of months if your lucky. It would also put the maintenance cost for courses on the taxpayers which may not be worth it for how many people the course is serving.
Fundamentally golf has a capacity issue that prevents it from being a sport accessible to everyone. A course can only serve 1 group of a couple people per hole, otherwise it gets backed up. Compare a golf hole to a basketball court that can accommodate twice as many people on less then half the space with little to no maintenance cost.
also make golf instructors free. my drive needs a lot of work, and i’m sure they’re tired of getting paid for their labor