While almost all golf courses are ecologically harmful in one way or another, golf courses in the desert really are the perfect symbol of how out of touch our contemporary civilisation is with the natural world we are part of.
I agree with you 10,000%. I too am from Las Vegas and I'm sick and tired of them saying dumb shit in the news like "oh we shouldn't take such long showers", or "we shouldn't run the water the whole time while doing dishes". Meanwhile, Golf courses are absolutely sickening with the amount of water they use. They always blame the little guy but they know god damn well who's using the water.
Golf originated in Scotland for a reason, it was easy to maintain the courses because of the weather. Just don’t do golf courses in desert weather places. But if you’re really worried about water waste, I’d first look into flooding agriculture techniques being phased out as fast as possible.
Absolutely agree with everything you said. Plastic isn’t optimal but when it comes to using plastic as a way to stop water and energy usage as well as protecting waterways from excess pollution then it can be really helpful.
Wineries here in CA are like golf courses in NV. We have so many and they use a ridiculous amount of water. I know several people a few years back who had wells and ran out of water because of the winery's water usage. It is very expensive for individuals to drop their pumps or dig new wells.
Living in Washington State here and while we don't have too many golf courses, they do annoy me in my city. They annoy me because there never seems to be anyone there and it just seems like a 'sport' for the privileged to me. 🤷♀️ Also we have a lot of green spaces in my city. I'd rather have a natural park that is accessible to all rather than a golf course.
In the UK, with so much land here being taken up by housing developments, parking lots, and commercial property, I would rather a golf course be occupying that space any day. I want to believe that the courses could be reverted back to biodiverse spaces, but in reality, something a lot more harmful for the environment would take its place. That's just the way it goes when you live on a small, heavily populated island. It also rains frequently, and a lot of golf courses here are more rugged and blended in with farmer's land and hiking areas. I would even speculate that they don't need to water the grass at all. But this is just an example of a place where golf seems more sustainable. I don't agree with these courses operating fully during a drought season, I can't even see how that would be profitable for them?
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist Yeah there should be laws where golf courses need to reflect the climate and landscape they operate in. Too bad the politicians we would need to pass that law are playing golf as we speak 😒
As people who grew up in Arizona and currently lives in St. George, my husband and I likewise despise golf courses. Water waste is something we try to be cognizant of every single day, and teach our kids to be mindful of. It was nice when we lived in Florida for a few years, because for the first time ever, we didn’t have that stress about water constantly in the back of our minds. Also I laughed so hard when you said, “maybe not wash your car every week,” because like, we neeeeever wash outside of our cars. 🙈 Literally the only time we washed our old car was right before we sold it. 😂
I feel you! I grew up in Ohio and lived in Japan where water is not in short supply and I moved here and changed my wasteful water habits real quick! I feel you hahahah I NEVER wash my car unless it's super dirty and might mess something up in the undercarriage or I'm selling it haha but I know so many people who "need" to have a clean car!
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist glad we're not the only ones. A good rain does pretty well at keeping it from getting too dirty. Ya know, every 6 months when that happens, because deserts.
Ok I don't golf or live in the desert so I'm very uneducated about this but... what happens if golf courses just stop watering the grass? Can you not hit the ball on brown grass? Maybe there's land erosion or something I'm not thinking about.
Same here. My guess is that the green grass is honestly just for aesthetic. I think the only thing that affects the game is grass length 😣Such a waste of resources!
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist That makes a lot of sense; I didn't think about it being a fire hazard. Astroturf seems like a good compromise in that case.
Really informative! ( I showed my dad who plays golf but he said in the UK he gets too much water - so I said ship it to desert courses haha) + also the irony of getting a golfing advert on your video!
I agree completely. There are very few golf courses that are environmentally friendly. There is one up here in Portland that gets irrigated water from the Columbia Slough and lakes around called Heron Lakes. It actually has herons around the lake area and kept housing development out of the area. But it rains a lot here in Portland unlike desert area that use a ton of water.
I realize this is a rather old video, but I just viewed it this morning. It appears to me that the number one user of potable water by category in the Las Vegas area is residential. An average home residence uses about 120,000 - 150,000 gallons of water annually. However, if you look at individual users of potable water, the resort and casino industry on the Las Vegas Strip is one of the largest single users of potable water., the resort and casino industry on the Las Vegas Strip is one of the largest single users. There are approximately 70 golf courses in the Las Vegas area. About 30 of those golf courses use treated wastewater to irrigate their courses, not potable water. If the Clark County Water Reclamation District, the City of Las Vegas Water Pollution Control Facility, and the City of Henderson Water Reclamation Facility did not have those courses to discharge their treated wastewater to, the treated wastewater would be discharged into the Las Vegas Wash and eventually into Lake Meade, or the treated wastewater would set in evaporation ponds. I, too, am concerned about water quality and quantity, but if that is the case, then I suggest we should put our efforts into the real culprits regarding water use and waste.
The resorts/casinos are VERY water efficient and recycle all their own water on site. Golf IS a real culprit. I never said it was THE culprit, but it is one of them.
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist Understood. I just find it interesting that so many people move to desert environments and then express concern about over use of water.
@@rgdodson well it's a big concern, of course we should express it. BTW the military forced my move there and I no longer live there over long term water concerns. I'm mostly surprised people move to the desert and expect to be able to keep up their same consumption, that's the real questions
The thing is nobody would play at a golf course made out of turf, it would be financial suicide. I’m pro golf but I’m also pro environment, I think taxing water more would be the best solution. It would cost more to play golf with this, as it should be a luxury item for living in a desert. Move somewhere greener if you want to play golf all the time.
Well damn, now I understand why so many Americans really passionately hate golf courses. The environmental impacts are over twice as bad as my country! One thing about the astro turf though because that's a brilliant idea, what about wildlife? I guess the fairways and such could be astro and then keeping bushes and shrubs natural (although that's probably not an issue in the desert lol)
It's outrageous! And we have SO MANY here! For sure, make all the manicured parts astro (animals aren't really using that part anyway) and keep the sides and other portions wild and native
I think everyone on the planet should be doing rain water catchment and it needs to be legal everywhere, water is a basic human right. It would be cool if golf courses used the water from there ornamental ponds to water the grass providing they get enough rain to fill it. I don't think golf courses are essential to anyone and they should not be allowed to take water while the citizens are restricted. Also something I do not hear people talking about is "should people even be living in the desert"?
oh 100%!! We don't get enough rain here, but in other areas, sure that's a great option! Haha so true! I thin, yes, people should and CAN live in the desert. Native people's did it for centuries and THRIVED but then colonizers came, rant the springs dry, planted non-native plants, and here we are
So great to hear about this from your perspective with such important points!! Personally, I still have a problem with them even in areas where it does rain, because they're still using valuable fresh water and land, and it's just wild to think about all the habitat that was destroyed to create them 😭But also, I get that they are fun for some people and provide jobs..I just wish it was less environmentally destructive and elitist...
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist Really for the space they take up, they don't provide much in the way of jobs and leisure time, not optimal at all, you could have a nice park with something for everybody, open to the public, we have a public golf course, it's vast, you could have nice forest trails on the outside near the river, you could have tennis courts, football pitches, an indoor sports center a quiet area with ponds and sparsely planted trees for people to relax, a nice play ground for young kids, a bigger one for older kids, with room left to have a small commercial area where you'd have nice cafes and restaurants, make it a place to meet, create jobs and have a nice space that benefits almost everyone, rather than a large expanse where you can hit a tiny ball towards a tiny hole with a flag off in the distance, that only a few will enjoy, our garden backed on to it when I was young too, and I remember it, there was a high fence, but no, broken windows, stray balls hiding in your grass, or raining down on your parents heads when they are cutting the grass, arrogant golfers, not satisfied with near caving your skull in and destroying all your stuff, then having the audacity to ask that you fetch their ball for them as if you are a dog. F**k any kind of golf course, I'm in Scotland, rains plenty, still an arrogant waste of nature in any form, with no appreciable return and possible substantial damages, if you are out in the middle of nature and wish to place a hole with a flag and hit balls at it, fine, sure a small hole and flag won't do too much harm, but f**k your manicured acres of grass, your abominable assault on nature for no reason! And plastic comes with it's problems when it does rain with all the compounds that mess with hormones, and who knows what covering all that land with plastic will do long-term? At least roads and other infrastructure are useful, although I think we could make it a lot more efficient if every idiot didn't want their own gas guzzling personal shuttle and we invested more in public transport, walkable cities, separate cycle paths, segregated where they must follow a road for people on human powered or low powered electrical vehicles. Encouraging people out of their cars has social, environmental and personal benefits in terms of meeting people, excercising, reduced stress, nope more highways! We are very much fighting a war with nature and nobody will win.
8:41 you must have been looking at mini golf courses, the average golf course has 74 acres of turf grass. The actual cost of installing a fully synthetic golf course is closer to 16 million dollars. The average sized public course near me has an annual maintenance budget of around 600,000. It would take over 26 years to pay off the install of the fake turf. Further more field turf needs to be replaced every 10 years. In no way is synthetic grass at all a reasonable solution.
or perhaps the information was accurate at the time I researched this video which is over 2 years ago. Regardless, I never said astroturf was perfect, but in a place like the desert, it should at least be considered.
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist golf courses haven’t increased in size in the last 2 years. A better solution for desert golf would be to stop the practice of over seeding and letting the Bermuda grass go dormant for the winter. This will save water as it won’t need to be irrigated over the winter. Moving to recycled water is another option many courses are adapting. There are also new types of Bermuda grass that are supposed to be more drought resistant and won’t go dormant which will allow for a golf course to be green over the winter. Astro turf just costs too much and doesn’t react to golf shots in the same way real grass does.
hahaha I'm talking inflation dude. But I agree the grass type matters. Regardless, in a place where people are about to run out of drinking water, they do not need 90+ golf courses. Golf courses suck for so many reasons as I talk about in the video @@ekd1985
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist My entire point was that you used a completely incorrect figure (the size of a golf course) to calculate the cost of installing astroturf. Even if you factor in inflation your figuire of $80,000 2 years ago only ends up being $94,000 now. 🤷♂️
Okay so I only recently found out I have a ‘smart’ water meter meaning it sends updates to my water company every hour and I can access this data through their website and OH MY GOODNESS. It horrified me. The amount of water myself, my flatmate and her cat use to keep ourselves alive and clean… and that is with me spending approximately 40% of my time at my partner’s home. So, if a couple of humans need THAT much water, it makes me really stressed out that golf courses use so much….. ARGH!
If a golf course replaced all of its grass with astroturf, it would not repay itself in one year. It would go bankrupt immediately because nobody would play there.
LOVE IT!! I would talk about the water consumption of golf courses. If we got rid of every single golf course in the US we could save billions of gallons a DAY
Golf is absolutely unnecessary sport anyway. Never been a fan of it. We have tennis, football, basketball why golf?. When I begin to age out of these sports I would rather choose table games like snooker, pool which are still very engaging and fun.
Or you can try frisbee golf too. They had frisbee golf in a public park in a place I lived before. No barriers between the people engaged in the game and other park users. It has the ability to be played in a forested area. I can’t stand the exclusivity of golf and how golf courses act as a barrier to connectivity in a community. Right now I live near a public golf course, but you can’t walk anywhere on the golf course, which sucks because it is near a nice bike trail and would make for a good park or nature preserve.
You may not like it but out of all “replacement sports” you mentioned there, not a single one is played in nature. That’s one of the main benefits of golf. And you can play it by yourself, unlike tennis (2-4), football (10 people) and basketball (2-10). I played all the sports you mentioned but arranging a group of working adults to get a match going is way more of a hassle and thus you end up not playing them as often, which is bad for physical health.
Better sell in the next 2 years and get out. This will potentially displace 20 million people across at least seven SW states. You'll have to move east of New Mexico.
These rich golf players will suffer a mental disorder, and so the average citizens don't need to drink. If you do need to drink, you need to pay for it at a higher price.
Pretty sure he’s invalidating the argument that golf is good for mental health as it’s both a sport, so it’s good for physical health, and you do it while walking in nature, so it’s good for mental health. Personally I came back to playing golf after the pandemic and it’s had and enormous positive impact in my life in both ways. I still somewhat agree that if the water is needed somewhere else then it should be looked at. Just don’t do dessert golf courses, it’s ridiculous.
Astroturf? 😂 so many reasons this is a bad idea and just wouldn't work. Namely economics. Your figures are off by a factor of 100. An NFL football field costs 750k-1.2 million for the turf, and that's on a perfectly flat surface. A golf courses 15 times that size, with undulating ground and natural obstacles like trees? Easily 15mil+ This is just one inaccuracy in your video. Another facr: only 14% of golf courses use a municipal water supply. Your video is full of many other incorrect bits of information. Do better research.
While almost all golf courses are ecologically harmful in one way or another, golf courses in the desert really are the perfect symbol of how out of touch our contemporary civilisation is with the natural world we are part of.
So well said!!!!!!!!!
I agree with you 10,000%. I too am from Las Vegas and I'm sick and tired of them saying dumb shit in the news like "oh we shouldn't take such long showers", or "we shouldn't run the water the whole time while doing dishes". Meanwhile, Golf courses are absolutely sickening with the amount of water they use. They always blame the little guy but they know god damn well who's using the water.
AMEN!!! it is disgusting how much they use when we are nearly out of water
Golf originated in Scotland for a reason, it was easy to maintain the courses because of the weather. Just don’t do golf courses in desert weather places.
But if you’re really worried about water waste, I’d first look into flooding agriculture techniques being phased out as fast as possible.
i already know about poor farming down here thanks tho
Absolutely agree with everything you said. Plastic isn’t optimal but when it comes to using plastic as a way to stop water and energy usage as well as protecting waterways from excess pollution then it can be really helpful.
Glad this came across well! Thank you!
what sits under that plastic turf? what happens when it rains?
Wineries here in CA are like golf courses in NV. We have so many and they use a ridiculous amount of water. I know several people a few years back who had wells and ran out of water because of the winery's water usage. It is very expensive for individuals to drop their pumps or dig new wells.
So true!! I hadn't thought about that. That is so sad!
Living in Washington State here and while we don't have too many golf courses, they do annoy me in my city. They annoy me because there never seems to be anyone there and it just seems like a 'sport' for the privileged to me. 🤷♀️ Also we have a lot of green spaces in my city. I'd rather have a natural park that is accessible to all rather than a golf course.
THIS RIGHT HERE! It is SUCH a privileged sport, it's expensive! Parks are so much better
If you have a lot of green spaces in your city already, why do you need more? I don’t see the logic.
In the UK, with so much land here being taken up by housing developments, parking lots, and commercial property, I would rather a golf course be occupying that space any day. I want to believe that the courses could be reverted back to biodiverse spaces, but in reality, something a lot more harmful for the environment would take its place. That's just the way it goes when you live on a small, heavily populated island. It also rains frequently, and a lot of golf courses here are more rugged and blended in with farmer's land and hiking areas. I would even speculate that they don't need to water the grass at all. But this is just an example of a place where golf seems more sustainable. I don't agree with these courses operating fully during a drought season, I can't even see how that would be profitable for them?
That's fair, parking lots are horrendous too ugh! Because a lot of rich retired people live here it's a popular sport still
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist Yeah there should be laws where golf courses need to reflect the climate and landscape they operate in. Too bad the politicians we would need to pass that law are playing golf as we speak 😒
@@BethInABox15 this is too accurate omgggg
This is the very specific content I've been looking for.
yesss! I'm so glad!
As people who grew up in Arizona and currently lives in St. George, my husband and I likewise despise golf courses. Water waste is something we try to be cognizant of every single day, and teach our kids to be mindful of. It was nice when we lived in Florida for a few years, because for the first time ever, we didn’t have that stress about water constantly in the back of our minds. Also I laughed so hard when you said, “maybe not wash your car every week,” because like, we neeeeever wash outside of our cars. 🙈 Literally the only time we washed our old car was right before we sold it. 😂
I feel you! I grew up in Ohio and lived in Japan where water is not in short supply and I moved here and changed my wasteful water habits real quick!
I feel you hahahah I NEVER wash my car unless it's super dirty and might mess something up in the undercarriage or I'm selling it haha but I know so many people who "need" to have a clean car!
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist glad we're not the only ones. A good rain does pretty well at keeping it from getting too dirty. Ya know, every 6 months when that happens, because deserts.
@@bethn2836 exactly hahaha
Ok I don't golf or live in the desert so I'm very uneducated about this but... what happens if golf courses just stop watering the grass? Can you not hit the ball on brown grass? Maybe there's land erosion or something I'm not thinking about.
Same here. My guess is that the green grass is honestly just for aesthetic. I think the only thing that affects the game is grass length 😣Such a waste of resources!
Grass will die and it becomes a fire hazard...
@@becnimi mostly for aesthetic, especially hyper green grass
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist That makes a lot of sense; I didn't think about it being a fire hazard. Astroturf seems like a good compromise in that case.
Dead grass & dry dirt makes it more difficult to properly strike a golf ball (taking a divot).
Really informative! ( I showed my dad who plays golf but he said in the UK he gets too much water - so I said ship it to desert courses haha) + also the irony of getting a golfing advert on your video!
Aww thanks! Thanks for spreading the world too! No way was there a golf ad hahahaha
I agree completely. There are very few golf courses that are environmentally friendly. There is one up here in Portland that gets irrigated water from the Columbia Slough and lakes around called Heron Lakes. It actually has herons around the lake area and kept housing development out of the area. But it rains a lot here in Portland unlike desert area that use a ton of water.
it's very hard! yes, desert is not ideal for grass
I realize this is a rather old video, but I just viewed it this morning. It appears to me that the number one user of potable water by category in the Las Vegas area is residential. An average home residence uses about 120,000 - 150,000 gallons of water annually. However, if you look at individual users of potable water, the resort and casino industry on the Las Vegas Strip is one of the largest single users of potable water., the resort and casino industry on the Las Vegas Strip is one of the largest single users. There are approximately 70 golf courses in the Las Vegas area. About 30 of those golf courses use treated wastewater to irrigate their courses, not potable water. If the Clark County Water Reclamation District, the City of Las Vegas Water Pollution Control Facility, and the City of Henderson Water Reclamation Facility did not have those courses to discharge their treated wastewater to, the treated wastewater would be discharged into the Las Vegas Wash and eventually into Lake Meade, or the treated wastewater would set in evaporation ponds. I, too, am concerned about water quality and quantity, but if that is the case, then I suggest we should put our efforts into the real culprits regarding water use and waste.
The resorts/casinos are VERY water efficient and recycle all their own water on site. Golf IS a real culprit. I never said it was THE culprit, but it is one of them.
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist Understood. I just find it interesting that so many people move to desert environments and then express concern about over use of water.
@@rgdodson well it's a big concern, of course we should express it. BTW the military forced my move there and I no longer live there over long term water concerns. I'm mostly surprised people move to the desert and expect to be able to keep up their same consumption, that's the real questions
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist agreed.
The thing is nobody would play at a golf course made out of turf, it would be financial suicide. I’m pro golf but I’m also pro environment, I think taxing water more would be the best solution. It would cost more to play golf with this, as it should be a luxury item for living in a desert. Move somewhere greener if you want to play golf all the time.
agree with this! Turf is not THE solution, I just wanted to run the numbers for water conservation :)
Well damn, now I understand why so many Americans really passionately hate golf courses. The environmental impacts are over twice as bad as my country! One thing about the astro turf though because that's a brilliant idea, what about wildlife? I guess the fairways and such could be astro and then keeping bushes and shrubs natural (although that's probably not an issue in the desert lol)
It's outrageous! And we have SO MANY here! For sure, make all the manicured parts astro (animals aren't really using that part anyway) and keep the sides and other portions wild and native
Carlin said it first lol great vid tho
what?
I move to a town near a forest land and somewhere inside of it is a massive golf course. I can’t imagine all the trees that had been cut down.
that is so sad!
I think everyone on the planet should be doing rain water catchment and it needs to be legal everywhere, water is a basic human right. It would be cool if golf courses used the water from there ornamental ponds to water the grass providing they get enough rain to fill it. I don't think golf courses are essential to anyone and they should not be allowed to take water while the citizens are restricted. Also something I do not hear people talking about is "should people even be living in the desert"?
oh 100%!! We don't get enough rain here, but in other areas, sure that's a great option! Haha so true! I thin, yes, people should and CAN live in the desert. Native people's did it for centuries and THRIVED but then colonizers came, rant the springs dry, planted non-native plants, and here we are
So great to hear about this from your perspective with such important points!! Personally, I still have a problem with them even in areas where it does rain, because they're still using valuable fresh water and land, and it's just wild to think about all the habitat that was destroyed to create them 😭But also, I get that they are fun for some people and provide jobs..I just wish it was less environmentally destructive and elitist...
that is SO true! I don't get why there are so many??? like we can have the fun and the jobs just without have 81 in one county...
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist Really for the space they take up, they don't provide much in the way of jobs and leisure time, not optimal at all, you could have a nice park with something for everybody, open to the public, we have a public golf course, it's vast, you could have nice forest trails on the outside near the river, you could have tennis courts, football pitches, an indoor sports center a quiet area with ponds and sparsely planted trees for people to relax, a nice play ground for young kids, a bigger one for older kids, with room left to have a small commercial area where you'd have nice cafes and restaurants, make it a place to meet, create jobs and have a nice space that benefits almost everyone, rather than a large expanse where you can hit a tiny ball towards a tiny hole with a flag off in the distance, that only a few will enjoy, our garden backed on to it when I was young too, and I remember it, there was a high fence, but no, broken windows, stray balls hiding in your grass, or raining down on your parents heads when they are cutting the grass, arrogant golfers, not satisfied with near caving your skull in and destroying all your stuff, then having the audacity to ask that you fetch their ball for them as if you are a dog. F**k any kind of golf course, I'm in Scotland, rains plenty, still an arrogant waste of nature in any form, with no appreciable return and possible substantial damages, if you are out in the middle of nature and wish to place a hole with a flag and hit balls at it, fine, sure a small hole and flag won't do too much harm, but f**k your manicured acres of grass, your abominable assault on nature for no reason! And plastic comes with it's problems when it does rain with all the compounds that mess with hormones, and who knows what covering all that land with plastic will do long-term? At least roads and other infrastructure are useful, although I think we could make it a lot more efficient if every idiot didn't want their own gas guzzling personal shuttle and we invested more in public transport, walkable cities, separate cycle paths, segregated where they must follow a road for people on human powered or low powered electrical vehicles. Encouraging people out of their cars has social, environmental and personal benefits in terms of meeting people, excercising, reduced stress, nope more highways! We are very much fighting a war with nature and nobody will win.
@@5688gamble Right, overall Golf courses just SUCK
8:41 you must have been looking at mini golf courses, the average golf course has 74 acres of turf grass. The actual cost of installing a fully synthetic golf course is closer to 16 million dollars. The average sized public course near me has an annual maintenance budget of around 600,000. It would take over 26 years to pay off the install of the fake turf. Further more field turf needs to be replaced every 10 years. In no way is synthetic grass at all a reasonable solution.
or perhaps the information was accurate at the time I researched this video which is over 2 years ago. Regardless, I never said astroturf was perfect, but in a place like the desert, it should at least be considered.
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist golf courses haven’t increased in size in the last 2 years. A better solution for desert golf would be to stop the practice of over seeding and letting the Bermuda grass go dormant for the winter. This will save water as it won’t need to be irrigated over the winter. Moving to recycled water is another option many courses are adapting. There are also new types of Bermuda grass that are supposed to be more drought resistant and won’t go dormant which will allow for a golf course to be green over the winter. Astro turf just costs too much and doesn’t react to golf shots in the same way real grass does.
hahaha I'm talking inflation dude. But I agree the grass type matters. Regardless, in a place where people are about to run out of drinking water, they do not need 90+ golf courses. Golf courses suck for so many reasons as I talk about in the video @@ekd1985
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist My entire point was that you used a completely incorrect figure (the size of a golf course) to calculate the cost of installing astroturf. Even if you factor in inflation your figuire of $80,000 2 years ago only ends up being $94,000 now. 🤷♂️
okay good to know @@ekd1985
Okay so I only recently found out I have a ‘smart’ water meter meaning it sends updates to my water company every hour and I can access this data through their website and OH MY GOODNESS. It horrified me. The amount of water myself, my flatmate and her cat use to keep ourselves alive and clean… and that is with me spending approximately 40% of my time at my partner’s home. So, if a couple of humans need THAT much water, it makes me really stressed out that golf courses use so much….. ARGH!
That's so cool, though! RIGHT!! It's insaneeee
I agree 100%.
glad we're not alone!
Pebble Beach uses recycled water from sewage. Water that goes down the toilet/ shower, but most courses don’t do that.
that's a step! turf certainly is still better out here
If a golf course replaced all of its grass with astroturf, it would not repay itself in one year. It would go bankrupt immediately because nobody would play there.
lmaoooooo okay
Mochi is also annoyed by golf courses using water.
oh 100% hahhaha
Love this. Keep it up.
thank you so much!
Always good to run into fellow antigolfers. Did you know Global anti Golf day is this friday?
omg NO!! I will be celebrating by making a TikTok thank you!
anyone have any good studies on this??? writing a paper on abolishing golf courses as a climate change solution
LOVE IT!! I would talk about the water consumption of golf courses. If we got rid of every single golf course in the US we could save billions of gallons a DAY
👍🏽✌🏽
Thanks for the support :)
To hell with that! Is golf really that popular?
Apparently??? Lot's of rich people live here and it is an elitist sport
Golf is absolutely unnecessary sport anyway. Never been a fan of it.
We have tennis, football, basketball why golf?. When I begin to age out of these sports I would rather choose table games like snooker, pool which are still very engaging and fun.
gosh i hateeeee golf!!!!
Or you can try frisbee golf too. They had frisbee golf in a public park in a place I lived before. No barriers between the people engaged in the game and other park users. It has the ability to be played in a forested area.
I can’t stand the exclusivity of golf and how golf courses act as a barrier to connectivity in a community.
Right now I live near a public golf course, but you can’t walk anywhere on the golf course, which sucks because it is near a nice bike trail and would make for a good park or nature preserve.
You may not like it but out of all “replacement sports” you mentioned there, not a single one is played in nature. That’s one of the main benefits of golf.
And you can play it by yourself, unlike tennis (2-4), football (10 people) and basketball (2-10). I played all the sports you mentioned but arranging a group of working adults to get a match going is way more of a hassle and thus you end up not playing them as often, which is bad for physical health.
Don't they use recycled water?
not always
Better sell in the next 2 years and get out. This will potentially displace 20 million people across at least seven SW states. You'll have to move east of New Mexico.
i'm renting thank god but for real this affects everyone. Check out my videeo on lake mead drying up
In Saudi Arabia, people carry around 2x2 square feet of astroturf, which they place on the sand in the area that the ball lands. Much more ecological.
that is so cool!!
Artificial Turf
i have very mixed feelings about it as i stated later in the video :)
Just Stop showering if you’re that fanatical about water
calm down bro I can be mad at the system. If you like golf then just leave but hey thanks for helping me make money :)
These rich golf players will suffer a mental disorder, and so the average citizens don't need to drink. If you do need to drink, you need to pay for it at a higher price.
i'm not sure what you're getting at
Pretty sure he’s invalidating the argument that golf is good for mental health as it’s both a sport, so it’s good for physical health, and you do it while walking in nature, so it’s good for mental health.
Personally I came back to playing golf after the pandemic and it’s had and enormous positive impact in my life in both ways.
I still somewhat agree that if the water is needed somewhere else then it should be looked at. Just don’t do dessert golf courses, it’s ridiculous.
Golf should be banned in dry States, regions and countries.
And I'm not even a big environmental guy and I recognize it
it's so obviously a waste of precious resources!
Astroturf? 😂 so many reasons this is a bad idea and just wouldn't work. Namely economics. Your figures are off by a factor of 100. An NFL football field costs 750k-1.2 million for the turf, and that's on a perfectly flat surface. A golf courses 15 times that size, with undulating ground and natural obstacles like trees? Easily 15mil+
This is just one inaccuracy in your video. Another facr: only 14% of golf courses use a municipal water supply. Your video is full of many other incorrect bits of information.
Do better research.
if you cited your sources perhaps I COULD do "better" research but you didn't even tell me where you got those stats so maybe you should do better!!
Wait!? No bloopers!!? 🥲
And “let’s cancel golf!” 😂 so sad that so much water is wasted on golf courses. Eye opening and sad
I guess I wasn't funny in this one hahaha sometimes there's just no bloops