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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

How much water must that waste every day?

Same with Palm Springs.

Deserts should not have golf courses, that's just insanity. But then the world has gone mad.

[-] mxcory@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Could you make an exception for indoor putt putt?

[-] ShatnersBassoon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

To be fair, the Pyramids are right on the edge of Cairo and the Nile Delta which is missing from this image, so it's probably not too bad compared to the 10 million people living next door.

[-] kapx132@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love planting usess crops in the middle of a desert and watering them with liters of water everyday its a great use of resources.

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

watering them with liter of water

It's only takes 1L for the whole golf course?

[-] kapx132@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

sorry it was a typo i meant "liters of water"

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

I would like golf a lot more if it used native terrain as part of the course. It's the whole bullshit with making the empty fields of grass that makes the game suck so hard.

Play golf in a damn forest, trees, bushes, creeks, and all. Next course, go play in an actual desert where the entire thing is a sand trap with whatever scant coverage exists. No putting there, you gotta find a way to get that ball to the cup (which might be full of sand if there's wind) another way. Next course, you're on a damn prairie with grasses as high as your waist, and you gotta hunt the damn ball down every stroke and hope the critters haven't stolen it.

Now that's a sport I can get behind

[-] Crismus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

My first golf course I played and learned on was mostly desert and sagebrush.

You learn through pain when you're playing on hard desert clay. I never could afford decent courses growing up.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Damn! That would be a brutal terrain to play in.

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

I think you miss the whole point of what a sport is

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Isn't the point to get out there, take some nice pictures for Instagram, then get drunk at the clubhouse?

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

So the answer is no then

[-] ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Disappointed its not 90% sand trap but w/e

[-] Xeelee@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Doesn't get more late stage capitalism than this.

[-] fadhl3y@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

This is why I'm a non-golfer

[-] TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They claim over half of all golfers do not play on traditional courses. Instead they play places like Top Golf.

I have no idea how they calculated that.

[-] Turkey_Titty_city@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

because normal people can't afford to golf.

they can afford golf clubs, however.

only people my entire life i have never known who golfed regular were rich business dudes, and their sons.

lots of people have golf clubs, but golf on a golf course like once every two years or less.

[-] Rouxibeau@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Of course it's Marriott.

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