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Good. Fuck golf.
(Mini golf excluded)
How is your feeling towards disc golf? It still required a large amount of area, but the grass doesn’t have to be perfectly cut, and the sport allows a lot more trees and plants - in fact it requires a lot more vegetation to make an interesting course.
I’ve seen a disc golf course be integrated into a local park, without any damage to nature. If only more sports could be this eco-friendly.
My local course is on the foot of a mountain, with the course utilizing the trees and natural open areas to make nice lines as well as some mountain sides and hills. Very few trees were chopped in the process, and it’s not really an area suitable for housing or industries. However, I know that disc golf has quite a different course style at more professional levels. A lot of the courses on pro tours are basically golf courses integrated with disc golf, which doesn’t really help with killing off ball-and-club golf.
Also they’re usually open to the public, non-exclusive, etc.
Fuck golf. George Carlin was right. And that’s just the beginning.
George Carlin died too fucking young.
I mean if communism is what it’ll take to get rid of golf I figure the ends justify the means.
My local golf course regularly floods and is unusable by anything other than ducks for months at a time.
So capitalism isn’t exactly doing the game any favours either.
Golf is a game rich men play when they are bored playing games with our lives.
Turn every golf course into income based housing.
Dig up every cemetery and turn them into housing.
Quit wasting earth on rich people.
There’s way more of us than them. wtf are we doing
I don’t play golf but I know people that do and I can assure you none of them are even remotely rich (although most are white men)
The problems we have with housing shortages and climate change won’t be solved even if you get rid of every golf course in America.
Living in a city without enough housing and seeing golf courses that are unused most of the hours of the day taking up huge swaths of land in the middle of my city feels like a “fuck you” to the poors.
Golf space should be used for forests. Cities need green spaces.
Multifamily housing should be built in existing housing areas
Then what’s your issue with cemeteries? Last I checked you didn’t need to be Bill Gates to be in one
Dead people claiming land is weird and gross. Burn em up and move on.
I’d prefer that I was blown up with dynamite, tbh.
Punk rock
Improvement isn’t easy and can’t be achieved in one step. It can only be achieved one step at a time.
For this reason alone…
Promise?
Viva la Revolution!!
That’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make!
Only if we put commie blocks on all the golf courses.
unironically that image goes hard as fuck lol
If we allow golf to win, the game of life will be lost forever
If Communism wins the Tournament of Political and Economic Philosophies, we just have to play closest ball pairs.
Nationalize golf courses, make them parklands.
NO! Make them public housing as most golf courses are in nicer towns
There’s already plenty of urban sprawl. We need more natural areas. Seize the houses of people who own multiple and make them public housing instead.
Golf courses are not natural areas. They are biological dead zones that are sprayed with pesticides and only hold grasses which do not help pollinators.
Golf is bad.
All the ones near me are full of trees, conifers so still not helping pollinators but it is food and shelter for native animals. Golf is not intrinsically bad, the sport can exist without being so classist and environmentally destructive, we just need to accept kinda-janky conditions. Like one my friends live by: it’s right by a tidal flat and quite muddy when the water’s high, the grass is dotted with sand patches, and there’s ducks and geese grazing the lawn or rooting around the marshy edges constantly.
Environmentalism is important but so are outdoor recreation spaces. We don’t need to live in Lothlorien. (We do need to stop using so many pesticides)
That much cut grass is bad in any fashion
It’s not ideal, sure. All man-made structures are bad in that sense, and an 18 hole golf course is far from the most efficient user/area recreation facility. Doesn’t mean it’s an evil and irredeemable pastime.
They are massive ecological dead areas with little to offer anything other than the humans playing golf.
Golf is bad for the environment because lawns and the notion of the English Garden are very bad for the environment.
Right… Which is why we would turn them into natural areas… Because they don’t have buildings…
It depends on where you’re talking. The golf courses around me are often built on land that isn’t good for housing. Ground won’t support even single family homes. That said, returning them to forest or prairie land as a public park is an option. Which is fine by me.
Then where will we dump all the herbicides?
Trump will think he owns them then all then.
Another pro communism meme
