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

Here's my pet peeve. How much gas is wasted each year cutting the grass along America's highways?

It's totally unnecessary. A native turf grass called Buffalo grass was once prevalent on the great plains. It is similar to Zoysa in that it grows sideways not up so it doesn't need cutting and is hardy enough to grow in Northern climates.

Seems green to me, getting the tractors and mowers off the highways would save lives and gas.

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Other than that turf interaction would essentially be uniform throughout the entorter course..

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I would say that basically putting a synthetic carpet over 300 acres would not be a net positive for the environment.

Using hybrid grasses that require less water and increasing natural areas (decreasing areas where mowing and watering is necessary) is the better way to go.

I dont play golf so i dont care how many courses exist out there.. But all o that is bullshite.

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Don’t put a golf course in the desert.

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I've always thought that was stupid - even without the 'climate change' aspect.

Seems like flagrant consumption of valuable resource just because you got the $$ - meanwhile farmer have to beg for water.

Not right - at all.

Play on the ground nature provides you. = with big money you can go there.

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Don’t put a golf course in the desert.

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Way easier than in Antarctica. See Desert Pines in Las Vegas.