I read that golf was originally meant to be played on local landscapes. So you could have like arid courses, greasy courses, etc.
That'd be sweet. But instead through capitalist innovation ™️ we get this stupid water waster where 90% of courses you'd have a hard time naming where you were if you were dropped onto it.
I live in what is technically a desert climate. It has all four seasons, but it qualifies as a "desert" because it gets sparse rainfall. It is rugged and beautiful. Yeah it might look "brown" in the summer at high noon but that same brown glows like gold in the dawn rays, and it turns reddish pink at sunset. I'd actually play a round of golf if I could do it around native plants rather than some aquifer-sucking course of manicured grass.
Publicly owned links courses are the best in this regard. Way more fun to play on too.
Imagine if Central Park only allowed in ~100 people at a time. That's market efficiency, baby 😎
Golf courses are dope. When they're abandoned and just become parks.
Kinda funny, been seeing tik toks talking about the useless of golf courses, some of them have more efficient ways of reusing water/rain water, but I'm still of the belief we could be without'em. Just a place for big business people to get away with backroom agreements.
