We should turn that golf course into a farm

  • gustofwind@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    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

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      12 days ago

      you can just let them be natural

      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.

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        12 days ago

        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