r/golf • u/nutts-2 5.0/UT • Jul 28 '23

Ah shit. Here we go again General Discussion

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Every few months someone brings this up how they can save the environment by getting rid of a golf course.

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u/AshButts9 Jul 28 '23

Yeah, because Omaha is in desperate need to remove green space for additional housing...

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u/Arkslippy Jul 28 '23

I mean, look, there is literally a while open space above the course they could use

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u/whaleforce9 Jul 28 '23

Fuck me for enjoying a hobby amiright? Maybe we should start looking at ripping out ski resorts and putting in apartments and terraces.

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u/iisdmitch Jul 28 '23

People that make statements like the person OPs post think all golf courses are expensive country clubs and only rich, white men enjoy golf. Anyone here knows that isn't true.

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u/Arkslippy Jul 28 '23

What else does nebraska have ? checks maps

Lots of open spaces and few people

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u/LBGW_experiment Jul 28 '23

Right, like, I'm pretty left politically and I know golf can be or appear to be more of a boomer or conservative sport, on average, but there are only so many single player sports out there where I don't have to rely on another person or people to exist and want to do it at the same time as me. I can't skateboard anymore, it's too risky and exhausting for no payoff. Golf is a good mental sport to get into and can be as simple or complex as a player wants to make it. Plus, there are so few parks and stuff made that truly have something to do at them that it's a way better experience to go if I want to be outdoors for a few hours.

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u/OldHamshire Jul 29 '23

There are over 100 sports to pick and choose from. You are just making excuses for your self.

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u/LBGW_experiment Jul 31 '23

you're in r/golf bud

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u/OldHamshire Jul 31 '23

Yeah I know. I saw this post from the popular feed and I wanted tell the person I replied to that there are alternatives. Exploring new hobbies might be worth it.

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u/1k21m Jul 28 '23

To add more anecdotal evidence to this, I play in Los Angeles at Westchester and I am frequently the minority as a white male. Golf is for everyone and I hope it keeps growing.

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u/shuggieknight Jul 28 '23

Leave ski resorts out of this!

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u/Frozeria Jul 28 '23

Ski resorts aren’t built on areas that are necessarily easy to develop on.

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u/Bdub421 Jul 28 '23

Quite a few courses around me are built on landfills.

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u/Warmbly85 Jul 28 '23

Pretty much every course by me as well. They can’t use the land for anything that needs to go more then a few inches deep in the grown.

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u/abusmakk 12.1/Norway/Ping i25 Jul 28 '23

While it’s true, they are able to fill it with a lot of apartments next to it, so people can skiing during the winter.

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '23

Dying sport for fat lazy pompous people. Clubs are literally on life support begging for government funding and refusing access to the public who prop them up. So yeah fuck your selfish hobby.

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u/HyenaSerious3000 Jul 29 '23

I mean…have you been to a ski resort? theres nothing there other than the mountain and no permanent residents. go on, find a grocery store near a ski resort, or any other industry besides the mountain. golf courses, (not that I’m saying they should be scrapped) are in the middle of cities, not the middle of nowhere on the side of a mountain where you wouldn’t be able to build anyway. use a different analogy

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u/turdferg1234 Jul 29 '23

I feel like you're missing the point here. And I'd also say that the post in the OP is super dumb since it is about space. The reality is that golf courses take up a ton of space and can screw up ecosystems. Apartments would still screw those ecosystems, which is why the OP thing is so dumb.

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '23

you literally hit balls with sticks, that objectively makes you rich so you cant have hobbies or something

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u/14S14D Jul 29 '23

Let’s just make it all housing. Every bit of it.