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What bugs me is that there are driving ranges which includes all the actual swinging, but for some reason rich people don’t like something that isn’t exclusive.
What are you trying to say here?
There’s no difference between playing golf and hitting balls on a driving range?
Only rich people play golf?
A lot of people in this thread, just trotting the all their basic bits, sound like they've never even played golf.
Golf is bad because it's incredibly wasteful of space to build and of resources, to maintain. Not because the game is bad.
Yeah, the game is fine. It's a long walk hitting stuff. Unbelievably wasteful for what it is though
As someone who's worked in the industry for a long time in the past. Driving ranges are for practice. Courses are exceptionally harder, the actual game. And I do agree they waste resources. But in the end, minus the waste of water, at least they're being kept as green spaces.
To be clear I used to work for the government in this regard. The spaces would've been cleared for commercial use otherwise.
While I do find golf pretty boring. I'd like our established courses to remain.
Calling them 'green spaces' is a bit of a stretch. For one, most golf ranges are privately owned, meaning that visitors have to be members. Second, the effort to keep the lawn regulation height means constant--and I mean constant--maintenance by a small army of groundskeepers.
A public green space should be: publicly accessible, free of flying hazards and motor vehicles, accessible for wheelchair and stroller use, and useable for community events free of charge.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned the volume of agricultural weedkiller and fertilizer that golf courses go through. It doesn't look like an environmental disaster, but it certainly is.