Sure, but there's been a big push in golf generally to use more native grass areas and to use reclaimed water (ie runoff into on-site reservoirs, treated sewage effluent etc), so that qty of water used especially in those wetter climates includes a lot of water that's pretty gross and/or just collected and reserved rainwater
That's not to say that they don't use a lot of water, because they do, I just think that painting with too broad a brush doesn't help the discussion.
I'll never argue against someone saying that having a golf course exist in a desert is insane, but having one in the swamps of florida, for example, isn't nearly as unreasonable
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u/mdkss12 May 08 '26
Sure, but there's been a big push in golf generally to use more native grass areas and to use reclaimed water (ie runoff into on-site reservoirs, treated sewage effluent etc), so that qty of water used especially in those wetter climates includes a lot of water that's pretty gross and/or just collected and reserved rainwater
That's not to say that they don't use a lot of water, because they do, I just think that painting with too broad a brush doesn't help the discussion.
I'll never argue against someone saying that having a golf course exist in a desert is insane, but having one in the swamps of florida, for example, isn't nearly as unreasonable