They all use tons of water, some recycled, some not. They all use tons of fertilizers which drain into the local ponds, lakes and rivers. There are quite a few public golf courses, but many are private.

Sometimes I wonder who is going to foot the bill to maintain these places when the price of a gallon of water skyrockets. Which is something that people smarter than me have also asked. Many of these so-called golfing communities are not rich at all. They are retirement places and often manufactured homes make up a significant part of them. What happens when it becomes too expensive for those retirees to pay the maintenance fees?


I think they may very well start to be the equivalent of abandoned strip malls.

As to your OP, yes. I agree.

reassign the cost of their sport to others.

Made an arrangement with the city to use reclaimed water from the waste management plant for fertilizer. I was ahppy to see this in this Red county.

I don't play golf in Florida, too damned hot most of the time, except in winter.

Sept was 10 degrees above average. I've been here 27 years and this is the worst summer ever.

Although, winter has sucked for quite a while. I remember when I'd have to wear sweaters for a couple months or so. Now it's a few weeks at best.

So I don't have the cumulative years here that you do. But I know that last winter, the most I did was wear two short sleeved teeshirts during the coldest periods, and I had no issues, often being too warm. No wonder that we have bad red tide and green sludge, with phosphates from lawns and big sugar being put in the water, and with climate change deniers running the state, bad ends are to be expected.

1993. My then 6 YO son had to wear a heavy jacket over his Halloween costume.

Fast forward to 2003. My 2ND kid, then 6 YO (yes my kids are 10 yrs apart) tore off his Harry Potter costume halfway into Trick or Treating because he was too hot.

The beautiful pond near our home is overwhelmed with weeds 6 ft high.

FL used to be nice. Now it sucks.

Sport has never been apolitical.

DID YOU VOTE FOR TRUMP?

YES: 56%
NO: 12%
INELIGIBLE: 18%
DIDN’T VOTE: 14%

“He was the lesser of two evils.”

IF HE RUNS AGAIN IN 2020, WILL YOU VOTE FOR HIM?

YES: 42%
NO: 20%
INELIGIBLE: 19%
UNDECIDED: 14%
WON’T VOTE: 5%

“F— yeah, I’m voting for Trump.”
“I’m not a citizen but if I could, it wouldn’t be for Trump.”
“I won’t vote for Donald Trump, but I’ll still vote Republican.”
“He’s made me some money. That’s all I care about.”

http://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/2018/09/12/anonymous-pga-tour-survey-tiger-woods-donald-trump/

In a Sports Illustrated survey of 76 U.S. Tour players published in March, 88 percent said they supported the American invasion of Iraq, and 91 percent supported Bush’s controversial nomination of Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court – a judge who was welcomed by Republican and fundamentalist Christian groups as the court’s swing vote in one day outlawing abortion.

http://otlgolf.com/jan_inside_TOUR.htm

either as part of member families or as caddies. Their world view is likely shaped by that Caddyshack culture. I would expect them to be rightwing and mysogonistic. I don't watch televised golf, don't need to pad those assholes' wallets.

is that most of them grew up on golf courses in the south or far west where the playing season is longer. Their parents had the money to buy them country club memberships year after year. They probably took a lot of lessons and hit a million golf balls in order to get real good at a difficult game to get real good at. The expense of doing all that probably explains why the tour is mostly privileged white guys from wealthier families who would vote for a privileged white guy like Drumpf.

I also think Drumpf probably took up the game of golf because it has historically been a privileged white guy's game with few minorities around.

It's as simple as that.. Golf is a sport for the wealthy.. and if your wealthy and ignorant? You only care about your own home.. Simple as thAT!

maybe not basketball, but when athletes get rich, they tend to lean Repub to protect the bounty, you know what I mean?

He earned 60 million the year he whined about having to pay $13,000 in social security taxes.

[link:https://money.cnn.com/2013/01/23/news/economy/mickelson-taxes/index.html|]

As a true Republican, the 60 million wasn't enough for him so he stole some more via insider trading.And just like a typical Republican he was caught but was allowed to get away with it.

[link:https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonynitti/2016/05/19/golfer-phil-mickelson-to-repay-1-million-in-gains-from-insider-trading-is-it-tax-deductible/#10e464a61232|]

They can't accept honestly buying stocks and taking their lumps if the stocks go down in value. They need a sure thing, a surety that they will get a paycheck, even when they finish in 30th place. Surety that any company they put money into will make them more money. They have the risk averse mindset that is destroying American and international companies, they would never put money into a May-be but unproven venture and accept losing money if the venture fails.

Worked out perfectly because I wanted Tony Finau to do well for the USA, but for Europe to prevail.

That's exactly how it played out.

Finau is the first man or woman from the long running Big Break series on Golf Channel both to win a tournament and also to play on the premier international team event. Previously several female Big Break alumni -- Kristy McPherson, Ryann O'Toole, Gerina Piller -- had played on the Solheim Cup team, but none of them have won on tour.

With the males it was exactly the opposite: Tommy Gainey, Matt Every and Finau had won events on the PGA Tour, but until this week none of them had played on the Ryder Cup team.

Finau had the most lopsided singles win today...6 & 4 over previously unbeaten Tommy Fleetwood, who was 4-0 in the team competitions paired with Francesco Molinari.

Tiger was a pathetic 0-4 and Mickelson was 0-2