You forgot the lack of mass ecological destruction and toxic levels of fertilizer with the mini golf
Fake grass isn’t great either, but at least it’s a slower poison than… well, poison.
An its tiny. Less than most parking spaces.
And mini golf takes up a far smaller footprint
No, don't first date mini golf unless you want them to know how you look incredibly frustrated and on the verge of chucking a club at a fucking windmill.
I could hear every line in this gif.
i lived in Aberdeen, birthplace of golf.
it's such a different experience there.
practically everyone golfs, all ages/genders/ethnicities, families, friends, neighbours, working class, poor, rich...
Golf grass grows naturally there and doesn't need extra water.
people just walk to the closest golf course.
Electric buggies are banned in most courses, in a game you can end up walking a few km, actual outdoor exercise.
it's so different than the rest of the world, where it is upperclass or upperclass pretending, beers in electric buggies, expensive clubhouses...
What about top golf
Top golf ruins the skyline of every city that has one
Tech bros and corpo sales drones trying to throw a "hip" pizza party where people can see them get out of their beemers and where they can pretend to have hobbies and souls by being "fun."
Or
Cookie cutter, middle class grind culture mating grounds where people dress up to get drunk overpaying for booze while they fail to hit a golf ball and post about how zany they are on the gram'
Or
past time
FTLoG.
It honestly wouldn't be so bad if there weren't so fucking many golf courses.
If there were 25 golf courses per US state, we would have 1250 golf courses - or less than 10% of the number we currently have.
I guess the rich don't want to have to share a space with the filthy middle class, or something.
all that, and regular golf is incredibly wasteful with water. it's sickening. plus the fact that it's a historically racist as fuck sport, fuck golf, fuck golfers. Oh and they expect their neighbors to subsidize their hobby (see muni golf courses) - get fucked
Boomers when someone wants to build a playground or a skatepark: "Noooo, that's communism!"
Boomers asking the local government to subsidize their useless ass golf course: "Our community"
Worth trying disc golf. Most courses are built on under utilized park land funded and maintained by local volunteer clubs. You can get three discs for $30-40 or most loan some from somebody who plays (we all have too many) and get started!
Most courses are free to play.
I don’t play except once every couple of years... and poorly. But it isn't as wasteful on water as you think. They often use some form of recycled water, and once it is on the ground it doesn't just go away. Much of it goes deeper into the ground, getting filtered naturally, and ends up back in an underground aquifer. The "loss" is just in evaporation. Which of course eventually comes back as rain. Some percentage of that ends up in the ocean. That part is more or less lost as drinkable water. But recycled water often wasn't drinkable to start with.
It's really the fertalizers that are the problem I believe.
Every golf course is a dead ecosystem pretending it’s alive.
Well, they sure aren't helping the ecosystem, but I wouldn't say dead. I live near a golf course, lot's of wildlife visiting it in the odd hours. And that is just the bigger stuff I can see.
Big animals don’t have a lasting ecological impact when the soil is dead. A golf course has no viable shrub cover, no insects to speak of, no real living soil, nothing. It’s basically a dead presentation field for some larger animals that abandon it after social functions. The area itself is not much more suited for live than a parking lot. Which also has wildlife visiting.
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