Golf - Men and Women on the Course

[hadespussercats]

You know, I sort of hate golf, in terms of it feeling like a sport of the entitled, and the most un-green use of green space I can think of.

Actually, it a very green use of green space. It's all green. Grasses, trees, other plants, etc. All kept free of structures, with the exception of one clubhouse building and a few service buildings.

Lawns use a lot of water, fuels for maintenance machines. Introduced species of plants, woodlands and wetlands cleared, animal habitats displaced.

And those gophers take a lot of dynamite.

[Coito ergo sum]

You know, I sort of hate golf, in terms of it feeling like a sport of the entitled, and the most un-green use of green space I can think of.

Actually, it a very green use of green space. It's all green. Grasses, trees, other plants, etc. All kept free of structures, with the exception of one clubhouse building and a few service buildings.

Lawns use a lot of water, fuels for maintenance machines. Introduced species of plants, woodlands and wetlands cleared, animal habitats displaced.

very often they preserve woodlands and wetlands, because they are situated in or near such lands, which must be preserved in exchange for the golf course being there, and the golf maintenance crew husbands the area.

Yes, they use a lot of water. But, they're certainly greener than a condominium complex.

And those gophers take a lot of dynamite.

I made my own hybrid grass. It's a mix between Kentucky Featherbed Bent, and Southern California Sensamilla.

[klr]

You know, I sort of hate golf, in terms of it feeling like a sport of the entitled, and the most un-green use of green space I can think of.

Actually, it a very green use of green space. It's all green. Grasses, trees, other plants, etc. All kept free of structures, with the exception of one clubhouse building and a few service buildings.

Lawns use a lot of water, fuels for maintenance machines. Introduced species of plants, woodlands and wetlands cleared, animal habitats displaced.

very often they preserve woodlands and wetlands, because they are situated in or near such lands, which must be preserved in exchange for the golf course being there, and the golf maintenance crew husbands the area.

Yes, they use a lot of water. But, they're certainly greener than a condominium complex.

... namely, the condominium complex built right next to the golf course.

[hadespussercats]

You know, I sort of hate golf, in terms of it feeling like a sport of the entitled, and the most un-green use of green space I can think of.

Actually, it a very green use of green space. It's all green. Grasses, trees, other plants, etc. All kept free of structures, with the exception of one clubhouse building and a few service buildings.

Lawns use a lot of water, fuels for maintenance machines. Introduced species of plants, woodlands and wetlands cleared, animal habitats displaced.

very often they preserve woodlands and wetlands, because they are situated in or near such lands, which must be preserved in exchange for the golf course being there, and the golf maintenance crew husbands the area.

Yes, they use a lot of water. But, they're certainly greener than a condominium complex.

And those gophers take a lot of dynamite.

I made my own hybrid grass. It's a mix between Kentucky Featherbed Bent, and Southern California Sensamilla.

You might be wrong about that. I don't have the time to hunt sources now. If I can, I'll come back...

[Coito ergo sum]

You might be wrong about that. I don't have the time to hunt sources now. If I can, I'll come back...

I probably am by some measure. The determinations of what is "green" and "not green" is quite often highly questionable science, much like the carbon credit fraud, err...I mean..."industry."

[Coito ergo sum]

You know, I sort of hate golf, in terms of it feeling like a sport of the entitled, and the most un-green use of green space I can think of.

Actually, it a very green use of green space. It's all green. Grasses, trees, other plants, etc. All kept free of structures, with the exception of one clubhouse building and a few service buildings.

Lawns use a lot of water, fuels for maintenance machines. Introduced species of plants, woodlands and wetlands cleared, animal habitats displaced.

very often they preserve woodlands and wetlands, because they are situated in or near such lands, which must be preserved in exchange for the golf course being there, and the golf maintenance crew husbands the area.

Yes, they use a lot of water. But, they're certainly greener than a condominium complex.

... namely, the condominium complex built right next to the golf course.

...shhh..... don't mention that....lol

[Clinton Huxley]

The average golf course is as sterile as an argument between CES and Seth.

I slay me, I really do.

[Coito ergo sum]

The average golf course is as sterile as an argument between CES and Seth.

I slay me, I really do.

Huxley!!!!

[maiforpeace]

This thread really belongs in games.

Golf isn't a real sport as far as I'm concerned...most of the people I see walking the greens are loafing along at a leisurely pace, or they are cruising around on golf carts. The fancy pants golfers don't even carry their own golf clubs around. They don't come close to marching briskly enough at any pace fast enough to have any decent aerobic value. The rest of it is skill, not any amount of strength or physical prowess. And what use is all that beautiful landscape if mostly you get to look at it, and only well to do people get to actually walk on it and play on it?

Comparing men and women on the golf course, what's interesting about that? At least compare them to each other at something more interesting like tennis.

[klr]

This thread really belongs in games.

Golf isn't a real sport as far as I'm concerned...most of the people I see walking the greens are loafing along at a leisurely pace, or they are cruising around on golf carts. The fancy pants golfers don't even carry their own golf clubs around. They don't come close to marching briskly enough at any pace fast enough to have any decent aerobic value. The rest of it is skill, not any amount of strength or physical prowess. And what use is all that beautiful landscape if mostly you get to look at it, and only well to do people get to actually walk on it and play on it?

Comparing men and women on the golf course, what's interesting about that? At least compare them to each other at something more interesting like tennis.

On average, people don't run around that much either during a game of (say) baseball or American Football.

Yes, they don't carry their own clubs around, because that would require them to be a beast of burden above everything else, which would kind of defeat the purpose. In all kinds of other sports - including many team sports - the competitors don't have to carry everything they need with them either. Someone else goes and gets it for them.

Sport doesn't have to be just about brute strength and physical prowess. Skill, dexterity, judgement, tactical awareness, creativity, keeping calm under pressure ... all of those things matter as well, and certainly so in championship golf. Teamwork as well where that applies. If it were just about raw physical attributes, sport would just be plain boring IMHO.

[Tero]

I watched a nature documentary on Swedish tv. Birds and mammals of Sweden. A good selection, never even seen bu the golfers.

Othet than that, waste of wildlife habitat.

[Tero]

That is, the whole documentary was at the golf course.