Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is.

The original game as invented by bored semi-drunk Scots was, I’m sure, a good laugh several hundred years ago with wee sticks and a random round thing.
The modern game and all its hideous capitalist/ classist cultural connotations is fucked.
- The original game as invented by bored semi-drunk Scots was, I’m sure, a good laugh several hundred years ago with wee sticks and a random round thing.
  Robin Williams did a great bit on this.
  https://youtu.be/14NQIq4SrmY?si=kv-5NtoSsdtBs3p0
  
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- I have it on good authority that golf was in fact invented by Bandrobas Took during the Battle of Greenfields.
- 🙄 modern home is just as accessible as any sport that requires gear eg hockey. Even more so. You folks just looking for enemies.
- Cope harder
- Tell me that you're poor without telling me that you're poor.
  
  Tell me you're an asshole without telling me you're an asshole.
  
  How dare someone be poor! Anyone who makes that choice is doing it to be offensive!
  
  Why does it matter if they're poor or not?
  
  For someone who spends so much time talking about growing up in poverty, this is a surprisingly callous thing to say.
  
  tell me you're a classist prick with more money than sense, oh no, wait, you've already done so.

Well, I recently learned of the existence of Excel competitions, so I’m not sure about the ‘most boring’ part.
- Some people really excel at spreadsheets.
  
  Jus' gonna leave this here:
  https://youtu.be/xubbVvKbUfY
- If you don't see the beauty in the orchestrated beauty of Excel macros and formulae, then there's no helping you.
  
  What about VBA? Remote data? Python?
- Nope, this is better than golf.
  
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- That's horrifying, if you have the forbidden knowledge of what people only program in excel is capable of
- I don't know if there still are, but back when you texted on a 12-button phone keyboard, there were texting competitions.

Mini-golf is actually kind of fun.
- Mini-golf is actually kind of fun.
  It's a lot of fun, and you don't need any nukes to enjoy it either.
  
  Maybe not need...
  
  Speak for yourself
- Mini golf is superior and should be the default golf. As in, it shouldn't have a descriptor. It should just be called golf.
  And what is called golf now should be called big golf or field golf or something like that to show how nonsensical it is.
- Most of the times I played it, my group is enjoying themselves on holes 1-5, is getting tired of being held up by the group in front of us for holes 6-12, and is getting noticeably bored by hole 13, but feel like we have to finish it. It's a game that starts fun and becomes obligation.
- I'm told Top Golf is fun too.

Wait until you hear about the laws in place that guarantee them access to water their fields no matter the drought. Nobody has heard of an unkempt golf course.

Not just that, but I found a few golf courses in my city where natural habitats used to be. These place could have easily been changed into nature parks for the local residents to go wind down a bit, but noooOOOooo. Some rich assholes had to buy the land and destroy the ecosystem so they could whack a ball around some fucking grass into a little hole.
- Would there be a difference to the sport if a part of the land was just left natural? I expect it would make the sport more interesting, atleast to the spectators.
  
  It was invented in Scotland. Where there's grass everywhere and almost no trees. Why not just play in natural landscapes that are suited for the game?

IMHO sport is a misnomer. "Game" seems more fitting to me.
- I'm always interested in this take. By definition,.it's clearly a sport.
  How do you define sport and how does it not meet the definition? It's a game of physical skill, mental concentration, and competition.
  
  I have always viewed it as a sport involves and active defensive player and an overall greater level of physical movement
  
  physical skill
- Where do you draw the line between sports and games? Are sports competitive where games are fun? Is poker a sport? Are video games capable of being sports? What could be done to golf that would make it a sport? Are all sports games if not all games are sports?
  These are the questions that keep me up at night.
  
  Not saying I hold this opinion myself but I think people that say this usually draw the line to physical exertion being required.
  
  When I think of sport I think of anything where one sweats due to physical exertion.
  
  If you can play it while drinking a beer it isn't a sport.
- I would piss my colleague off by telling him he's got a nice hobby...
  
  Good. They need to accept reality.
- Is chess a sport?
  
  As much as assaulting fish is a sport. Much more reasonable and intellectual though
  
  Do you move a lot during chess (yourself, not the pieces :P)?
- I actually get exhausted playing golf - but that's because I'm BAD at it. Apparently I put too much force into my swing. Every time I've tried to play I get told to relax and "let the club to the work".
  So they literally have these weighted sticks to reduce the amount of frickin effort required to hit the ball.
  It's not a sport. It's an ANTI-sport. The less you try the better you'll be.
  Can you imagine if we had an Olympic running sport to see who the slowest runner was? That's what golf is. Get the weakest, limpest, vitamin-defficient humans and see how accurately they can hit a tiny ball into a hole.
  It was invented by the Scots as a joke against the English while they all go and compete in proper sports like caber tossing and hammer throwing.
  
  Or to keep it short, know that John Daly is one of the greats of the sport. Look up a picture of John Daly dated any time in the last 30 years, and you'll know how hilarious that is.
  And people complain that Starcraft isn't a sport.

The golf course near me has spent the last month about a foot underwater.
I have never been so smug. I hope it's ruined.

every golf course could be a lovely botanical garden/park or arboretum, with little paths every which way and carefully crafted scenery to make you feel like you're inside a disney movie
- You see this?
  I used to hike along the coast there quite regularly but someone decided it was much better to turn the whole thing into a gulf course and to illegally block access to locals.
  Edit: Of course they also chose the driest part of the island.
  
  Where is this? California has strict regulations about the actual beach access. So e.g. Pebble Beach is in one of the most beautiful locations in all of Northern California, ridiculously expensive and nearly impossible to play as a mortal, but you can still go drive around 17 mile drive through the course and walk along the coastal trails for free.
  
  Maybe they should be on the lookout for people pouring cement into the golf holes.
- AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING ON EACH SIDE. Seattle estimated they could solve the housing crisis by closing a handful of their muni courses (leaving multiple municipal and a dozen private courses in the area) and building medium density housing there. Solving a critical need by getting rid of a few locations for a dying sport:
  https://www.theurbanist.org/2019/06/12/unlike-seattle-golf-really-is-dying/
  It's a waste of space otherwise.
- Most of the golf courses near me are pretty much this - densely forested areas with meticulously landscaped little gardens, which happens to have some holes built in.
  
  A lawn is not a garden.
- This.
  
  Please. For the love of God don't let this lazy comment cliché migrate to here.

As an environmentalist, fuck Kentucky bluegrass, fuck golf, and fuck lawns while we're at it
- I agree lawns are dumb but from an environmental perspective they can be net carbon sinks, which I found surprising. Though they are still bad for other environmental reasons.
  
  Hey fuck environmental diversity, we've got carbon sinks. What a fucking joke.
  
  Nothing can sink any more carbon than its weight plus any bits that fall or get taken and don't rot. Worse, for most plants most of the weight is water, not carbon-containing organic compounds.
  So lawns might be "net" carbon sinks only when compared to the extreme case of leaving the ground bare (or worse, asphalted), but only whilst they're growing (they don't really retain any additional carbon after grown and any grass mowned will just return the carbon back to the air when it rots and a lot of it will be Methane, a worse greehouse gas than CO2) and they're a lot worse at it per unit of area than, say, trees or even just the natural ground cover in just about any land environment but desert.
  
  I mean if you want to talk about sequestering carbon, there's all sorts of natural lawn options that aren't actively planting an invasive species that has proven to be really bad at doing any sort of water filtration or absorption. In fact, I'd wager that planting (and letting grow) prairie or whatever your native biome supports probably sequesters more carbon, assuming your native ecosystems aren't straight up desert. Even if they are, you're now using so much less water that it's a huge net win there.
- BUT ITS SPORT BRO AND MY DAD PLAY D IT ONCE

Las Vegas has something like 70 golf courses wasting inordinate amounts of water. Of course most houses also have outside private swimming pools too.
- Vegas actually is a poor example, they have excellent water management policy even in spite of what is typically considered wasteful. Being so far down the Colorado River Basin kinda made being experts on the subject a necessity.
  
  Of course it has excellent water management because otherwise they'd run out. Doesn't mean that everyone having pools and so many golf courses is anyway defensible, or doesn't put insane stress on the supply.
  
  Right. Lake Mead is sure looking lovely these days.

I don't care for golf and wish golf courses were better used spaces, but the thing about golf that makes it interesting is the meditative practice of being able to swing the club in just the right way to make the ball go where it needs to.
I like archery and you have the same sort of thing going on there. You have to have your positioning, movements, focus, and smoothness of action to hit the target. You can tell how you failed before the arrow hits the target. Working on fine tuning your actions is enjoyable.
- archery
  archery doesn't carry a racist history and waste giant tracts of land. they can putt-putt or get fucked.
- I shot in highschool and it was the same thing. I loved it. You get into this extreme zen state and.become hyper aware of your own body. It was a lot of fun.
- They make driving ranges for that. They take up much less space.
  
  It isn't the same sort of thing though. Yes, you can pick a target and go for that, but having the topography and hazards makes for a different experience.
  Driving ranges also don't have the same sort of socialization and competition aspect.

I live in Indiana, so there's (generally) no shortage of rain. The golf courses in this town still water the entire grass of the course every day. Even if it rained the day before. Even if it's raining right then and there. There aren't water shortages here, but what a waste.
- Most courses use man made ponds as both hazards and as retention ponds so they can use that rain water.
  You know what uses three times the amount of water per acre? Corn. And almonds use about ten times more water than corn. And people have only just started caring about lawns, that use two orders of magnitude more water, fertilizer, and land than golf courses.
  Golf courses really aren't that bad from an ecological point of view when compared acre per acre to other large man made structures. They're generally pretty small when compared to other large landscaping projects at 30-80 acres. The issue is when a city has like twenty courses just for the purpose of driving up housing prices.
  Would that land be better as a park? Probably, but this is the US, someone would see an unprofitable "empty" plot of land and throw million dollar houses on it.
  
  You know what uses three times the amount of water per acre? Corn. And almonds use about ten times more water than corn.
  And we get food out of that input, unlike a golf course where you get nothing of value.
  And people have only just started caring about lawns, that use two orders of magnitude more water, fertilizer, and land than golf courses.
  Have you seen a golf course before? They're literally lawns.
  
  Well I admit I haven't seen the entirety of those courses, but based on what I've seen, and considering they're surrounded by either businesses, houses or, in one case, a hospital, I don't know where those retention ponds would be. The hazards they have absolutely wouldn't be big enough to cover the amount of water I see sprayed on them.
  
  You’re really comparing growing food to some entirely useless recreation activity?

I just don't understand the need for so many courses, I played golf as a kid on the same one for 10 years, the local environment allowed it to maintain itself for the most part.
- I used to hang out with those types. It's similar to country clubs, airline lounges, and first class travel. It's not so much about the amenities of the luxuries as much as it's about whom you meet. Or don't meet. You become good at golf as part of an upper class social thing.

- I'm pretty convinced Golf is Scotland's gift to mankind. It's a fantastic prank - fooling rich morons into spending their days whacking a ball up and down useless terrain, only whack it again, and again, while wearing ugly clothes and paying people to carry your bag of clubs. Scotland sold this joke so well the world bought it, and if it weren't for the ridiculous environmental impacts, I'd be all for keeping the joke going.
  Because if you think golf is a sport, you're a clown, and probably dress like one. Good work Scotland.

- I hear nuclear armageddon is fun, too.
  What kind of parties are you going to?
  
  Louis Slotin's place. Were you not invited?
  ...that's probably for the best
- Eh, the OP is the one that made it a ratio of destruction to fun. Would have had the same impact if it said "Lunatics leveling miles of nature to thwhack a ball with a stick." but they chose to make a value judgment on the fun quotient of golf.
- Uh... is nuclear armageddon fun?
  
  How about a nice game of chess?
  
  Depends on how much of you survives the bombs I guess
- Well, that would very much depend on whether is a Mad Max style future or something else with fewer muscle cars...

Golf is a dying sport. Courses where I live have been closing, some have been turned into parks
- The one near me got turned into 500 houses. The water infra couldn't cope and everywhere now floods when it rains.
  
  Damn. If only we kept the golf course.
- Courses were over-built in the 90s.
- I wish they would at least let you walk on the cart paths before /after hours. I've seen one course that did that - allowed walkers once the sprinklers turned on in the evenings (signaling the end of play as well), but the majority don't.
- Wall Street Journal: “Millennials Are Killing Golf Courses”

Devil's advocate, in a dense suburban setting it keeps that land from being paved over and turned into a commercial zone. But when it is in a rural setting, absolutely.
- I don't agree. It's not like the land being used in that urban setting is home to wildlife. It's not filled with trees. It's a giant lawn that gets watered every day and if you want to be there, you have to pay. I don't see that as being an improvement to anything else in a city.
  
  Golf courses, at least the ones I've been to, have tons of trees. They're usually densely forested in the areas between holes to make a sort of barrier. And I certainly see more wildlife on a golf course than in, say, the parking lot of a strip mall.
  
  I found a squirrel's nest on one course with about a hundred golf balls in it. And I've gotten chased off my tee shot by a bull elk.
- First of all, this...
  dense suburban
  ...is an oxymoron.
  Second, in the hierarchy of urban greenspace, golf courses are only one step up from the very bottom (just above private lawns).
  
  Look at what people in NYC and north east NJ call suburban, then look at what someone in upstate NY calls suburban. Density is very different. Look at it as a scale. Dense Urban, Urban, light urban, dense suburban, suburban, etc. I am specifically pointing at places like in NJ where it would more likely be turned into a mall than a park.
  
  not all suburbia is north american ffs
- If you want to preserve the land then make it a public park where everyone can enjoy it not just the rich jerks who can afford to pay to be there
  
  Many towns have public courses which are just as described.
  
  Ideally sure, but we are dealing with capitalism. In a high populated area people will want to find a way to profit over every inch.

Golf is boring to watch. But for most players it is a social game. It's like going to a bar with a few friends, but getting a little exercise. And they don't do a ton of leveling. Costs too much, and using the land the way it is, is what makes a course unique and interesting.
That said, it would be easy to find a sport that destroys more natural land. Ever see a football, baseball or soccer stadium... including all the parking. Then realize how many baseball fields their are in america (or soccer fields in other countries). They are several times the number of golf courses, and they all need more parking each than one golf course.
- More than leveling the ground, watering it is the main environmental issue
  
  it's really not in a large part of the country. In a desert sure. But even there they take measures like using recycled water and not pottable water and such. And of course agriculture makes every other water use pale in comparison.
- Golf courses use a shit ton of water, especially in areas where grass isn't supposed to fuckin grow
  
  yes in the desert they do. But most courses aren't in the desert. Plenty used to only water the greens in the middle of the summer in the northeast where I grew up. People usualy picture only the high end golf courses. Most are not that. Some used to just shut down for a while if it got too dry rather than water.
- There are 15,500 golf courses in America.
  There are just over 900 stadiums in America.
  
  I think his point about the damage environmental damage golf courses cause pale in comparison to other sports that need arenas.
  Have you seen a golf course? Most of them aren't made from scratch to fit some grand vision. They're usually set up working with the environment rather than against it.
  I've been fishing on an old golf course that's no longer in use and it was mostly the same except the grass wasn't cut as low. Great outdoors spot for families.
- Size of Old Trafford Football Stadium and all parking nearby: 20.8 hectares.
  Size of my local small golf club: 53.3 hectares.
  And that's one of the largest stadiums in the country, vs one of many, many golf courses.
  Edit: For decimal place fuckup.
  
  That is an absurdly massive golf club. Nowhere near average.
  https://asgca.org/faq-how-much-land-do-i-need-to-build-a-golf-course/
- I guess having absolutely no idea what the fuck you’re talking about has benefits.
  
  Nice job adding nothing to the discussion. Go back to reddit, they miss you.

I live in upstate New York, just about every town has a golf course. I personally love the game, but I honestly don't think their that bad for the environment up here. For many people it's their third place.
Like we get plenty of rain, and most I've been to are nestled near the edge of the forests. The APA regulates the shit out of what you can do. And it's really not much of a waste of land. If I want to go for a hike or trail run, I have dozens within biking distance and maybe even 100 within 30 minutes of driving.
It's farms and their cow shit fertilizer releasing gass and it's runoff polluting the watershed that's doing the most damage around here. But like I say, the APA does a pretty good job most of the time.
- lol this moron thinks they don't fertilize the NEON GREEN grass that makes up almost every course.
  goddamn that's dumb
  
  I don't think you've seen how NEON GREEN the Adirondacks are. I get that they fertilize it. But really I don't think the environmental impact is particularly great around me.
  What environmental impacts are there that I'm not thinking of for my area? And how severe are they? The way I see it, this area is one that can afford to have golf courses.

Two golf courses nearby have closed down and are being rehabilitated by the National Park that claimed the land or however they got it. IIRC one of them was family-owned for four generations, but the last owner was in his mid-twenties and got in way over his head, and committed suicide on one of the greens.
Sucks about the circumstances, but otherwise I love to see it

Lets replace golf courses with mini-golfs and parks!
- Instead of pools of neon dyed water they can have eco friendly sand fountains!

The only benefit to society I can see for golf is that it provides a reliable source of consistent standardized ammunition for my golf ball cannon.

Golfers play baseball?
- This post is somehow managing to offend on a personal level almost everyone.
- Or worse: cricket.
- A golf course is 20 times the size of a ballpark.
  
  Thats cool. So that is why they use it to play baseball there?

Americans: What the fuck is "kilometers"?
- Me, an American: how are we using a 1 dimensional unit of measure to talk about something that is 2 dimensional? 🤔
  
  km² ???
  
  Wait until you hear about geometry, man.
  Gonna blow your mind!
  
  Is this a joke?

Great places to pitch tents.

A good walk spoiled and they won't even let you walk on a number of courses. Have to use the little electric cars.

So... I actually really like golf. I think it's fun. Haven't played in over a decade, but I look back on my memories playing pretty fondly.
That said, I have zero issue recovering a lot of that lost land and water usage to put them to better use.
I'd be very interested to see a version of golf that is less ecologically destructive and less water intensive.
- Frisbee golf is where it's at

Hectares or acres
- km^2
- A fantastic unit of measure if you're a farmer pulling a plow behind an ox. Useless otherwise.

They dont level tho, I saw some of them playing with pond in between💀
- Usually those are artificial ponds

It would be more challenging if they left the trees in place anyway.

- Why do they helmet bump so much when they celebrate a good play?!?
  Like, you just went helmet to helmet with someone, got helped off the field, and teammates congratulate you with more helmet bonks?

It sucks because it's such a big sport here in Scotland, it's strange that people use the defense other things are worse to make it seem like it's not a problem. It's mainly stupid since there are plenty of other spots that have the similar qualities, without the masses of land lost and wasted water.
I also think it's funny just how much it costs to go golfing, some courses here in Scotland have a membership system with like silver, gold and platinum.
It feels like a very elitist way to price a sport, and no I would rather not spend a months wage per year to hit a ball down a field for a year, mini golf is much cheaper, more enjoyable and environment friendly, and I'll be just as shit as I would be at golf.
- Scotland is one of the few places where golf can actually be somewhat environmentally ok. Like, grass actually grows there without you having to do crazy stuff to it.

The problem is its not worth the fight. Its an issue that's for sure pushed by fossil fuel industry because how many people you will piss off. It's devastating but if you want action on this you need to actually ignore it for now and instead get golfers to see it themselves in other ways. Its a good game and its most peoples thing they do to fuck off from lifes bullshit. Coming at people and saying you'll take that away is something fossil fuel industry would love for people to do
- This meme is just discussing how wasteful golfing is. No one here is forming a secret plot to do away with all the golf courses, like. Golfing is one of the many ways in which the 1% disproportionately destruct the planet. I think bringing attention to that is important.
  
  I doubt it's as harmful as you think. Maybe in desert areas. I don't golf, but I know people from every economic group who love the game. Definitely not just a rich person's sport.
  
  Ah so we want all the negative sentiment for saying we want to end golf but none of the positive effects of doing so? Fantastic plan!
  I guess at best it might help push some courses into adopting ecologically sustainable management practices just to attract the green minded player.
  It think it's more likely to foster resentment and distrust 'give the greens an inch and before you know it they'll have it's all locked in shoe boxes eating bugs' mentally that is so hard to fight against.
- its most peoples thing they do to fuck off from lifes bullshit.
  No... not most.
  According to the National Golf Foundation, 41.1 million Americans played golf – BOTH on-course and off-course – in 2022.
  This record-setting total includes 25.6 million people who played on a golf course and another 15.5 million who participated exclusively in off-course golf activities at places like driving ranges, indoor golf simulators, or golf entertainment venues like Topgolf and Drive Shack.
  So only about 8%... or 12%, if you include those who participate in "off-course golf activities" alone.
  
  Those numbers seem off. Everybody in my entire life I'm probably 1/2 of the people I've met are golfers. Every city IVs lived has been able to support multiple golf courses.
- Username checks out.
- Its a good game
  no it's not, objectively it's inane, historically it's racist and the apologetics in this thread are abjectly depressing.
  
  Everything historical was racist. Relax

I thought cricket was the most boring sport in existence.

IMO, rectangle sports are the most boring sports in existence. It's literally a rectangle and always a rectangle every time... And everyone stands around watching the exact same shit happening inside the perfectly constructed rectangle. It's the same thing, over and over. Not only that but millions of people say they love sports, but they don't even play, just stare at a glowy rectangle and watch people in a rectangle run around. You can't define a more boring sport than that. At the very bare minimum, to spice things up, how about introducing some goddamn obstacles randomly placed in the rectangle. Add some actual dynamic scenarios that keep the players on their toes and trying to come up with new strategies.
Motocross and enduro racing are sports and so is golf. Golf courses are all different, they unique, dynamic change depending on temperature, weather, grass length, wind, dew point, hole location.
But I do agree in general, golf courses are very big waste. Especially when placed in the middle of deserts or places that require significant resources to maintain.
- Dude you can describe anything this way to make it sound boring, but that doesn't even get close to reality and I think you know that deep down. I don't even like sports and this is a senselessly reductive way of framing the discussion.
  
  IMO, rectangle phone screens are the most boring screens in existence. It's literally a rectangle and always a rectangle every time... And everyone hold it around watching the exact same shit happening inside the perfectly constructed rectangle. It's the same thing, over and over. Not only that but millions of people say they love their phone, but they don't even post, just stare at a glowy rectangle and watch people in a rectangle posts around. You can't define a more boring screen than that. At the very bare minimum, to spice things up, how about introducing some goddamn obstacles randomly placed in the rectangle. Add some actual dynamic scenarios that keep the owners on their toes and trying to come up with new strategies.
- Soccer fields are affected by temperature, weather, state of grass, wind, etc. too. So are football and baseball fields. Baseball fields are all unique. Cricket fields are round.
  That said, there are obstacles in those identical rectangles. But unlike golf, these obstacles can move and think! They are called opponents and believe it or not, they can often be more dynamic than a tree or pond!
- Yeah i might enjoy soccer if players got to run around with roman candles firing them at each other
  Goalies get three mortar shells per match
  
  Soccer just needs to adopt some rules from hockey and it would be more entertaining.
  
  Like what happened in Pasadena, 1994.
- I'm not a fan of watching sports myself, but you're ignoring a big part of it: The strategy behind it and its execution. But apart from that, I think most people just want to feel like a part of something and cheering on a team is an easy way to do that.
- You just gave me an idea...
  Soccer on a square field, four teams playing against one another, scoring in the nets closest to yours gives one point, in the net facing yours gives 2 points. Imagine the chaos!
- Aussie rules football is all that you describe, but on an oval.
- Golf courses are all different, they unique, dynamic change depending on temperature
  Oh my god the ball goes in the hole, such complexity noooo my brain is going to explodeeeeeee.

I MUST KEEP BIGGERING I'M TINKERING ON BIGGERING AND BIGGERING IS TRIGGERING MORE BIGGERING

No need to worry. As soon as real estate prices go up those golf courses will be repurposed for other needs.
- Don't underestimate the capacity of rich people to flaunt their excesses, while the people are suffering in scarcity.
  
  No need to worry. As soon as real estate prices go up those golf courses will be repurposed for other needs.
  Don’t underestimate the capacity of rich people to flaunt their excesses, while the people are suffering in scarcity.
  Nothing to do about the rich.
  Though my comment was made moreso as a tongue-in-cheek type of comment, I'm also just stating facts that I've actually seen with my own eyes.
  I live on a part in the planet that used to have plenty of golf courses (and movie drive-ins for that matter), and now they're all gone, because as more population moved into the area, more real estate was needed for housing.
- Yeah, I've watched two golf courses within 30 minutes of me make way for multifamily residential, some for age restricted residential.
  The majority of courses in my area are built on old farms, though.

It's a sport?
- I mean... E-sports exists so I guess the word "sport" doesnt actually mean physical exercise, just competitive elements, apparently
  
  Esports is considered an activity rather than a sport according to my states school system. What is the difference between a sport and an activity? I couldn't find their definitions lol.
- I mean, you technically move your body when you're hitting the ball and then when you walk to the golf cart.
  
  I do that when I go to the kitchen to eat something. I move my body and walk to the kitchen
- Christ, this acktually again 🤦‍♀️
  
  Honestly, I never thought of it as a sport. That was actually a genuine question 😂

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I know this thread is a bit old, but I used to be an irrigation tech at a 27 hole golf course. Just wanted to throw some numbers out there for anyone interested. This was in a hot climate for reference. During the wet season, we would pump out anywhere from 200,000 gallons to 600,000 of water per night. During the summer or droughts, we would pump 750,000-1,500,000 gallons of water PER NIGHT. During the day, especially during droughts, I had to go around spot watering everything all day. I could easily pump 150,000 gallons during the day on top of what we pumped at night. During a hot week with no rain, our average was around 10.5 million gallons of water. Our course used "reclaimed water" but the majority of the water was supplemented by the city supply. We only got the reclaim license because of some favors and shady deals to lower our taxes.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/28/golf-good-walk/

It's green space conservation. Always nice to see in the urban jungle.

- Hating a sport for rich people is not classist holy shit xD I guess I've gotta watch my language or I might offend a person of means

- Grass, when it's the only thing in a lawn, is not good for the ecosystem.

Worth it

As someone that lives in the second flattest state and is surrounded by corn and soy field, and doesn't play golf, this doesn't affect me one bit. Bye.
- Thank you for sharing
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Lol Lemmy is officially scraping the bottom of the barrel to ensure nothing in society unrelated to giving your whole self to another lazy person is left. hahaha