Climate crisis: Golf courses on borrowed time as Earth's weather patterns become more wild

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Climate crisis: Golf courses on borrowed time as Earth's weather patterns become more wild




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The 30 or so golf courses in the Salt Lake County of Utah drink up around nine million gallons of water a day to stay pristine green -- that's more than 13 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

Managing the turf on golf courses also means using carbon-intensive fertilizers, plenty of mowing and, in many cases, clearing forests or trees that were soaking up carbon-dioxide to make way for long tracts of fairway.

In other words, golf is a dirty sport that's wrecking the planet. But it doesn't have to be.

The impact of golf on the climate and environment has led to growing calls to make the sport more sustainable -- even to play on bone-dry courses, as golfing legend Tiger Woods has enjoyed.

And it's not just to save the planet, but to save the sport itself, as the climate crisis threatens to transform many courses into muddy swamps.

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