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These type of articles are ridiculous written by authors trying to create rage about a sport they don’t enjoy. Golf originated in the 15th century. Wind energy has existed alongside it for a very long time in the form of windmills. Solar farms are a modern day creation and no one wants a solar farm in the middle of their cities. It’s like saying NYC should get rid of Central Park because it doesn’t provide housing or energy. Ridiculous when you can apply grade school common sense, put the solar on the roofs!!! Wow! There is plenty of room in the world for all 3 to exist. We do not need to remove a past time that brings joy and community to many people around the world.
Or instead should I attack a different sport, let’s get rid of all the soccer fields they also can house wind and solar energy?! See ludicrous.
What are you even saying?
The average golf field is 150 acres. The average soccer field is 1.8 acres. You could fit over 83 soccer fields in a single soccer field.
And community soccer fields can be used for events, conferences, picnics, other sports such as frisbee, field hockey, etc. Golf courses are just a gigantic waste of space that ruin the surrounding ecosystem to cater to rich assholes.
Go to areas in Florida, Hawaii, or similar wetland areas where they’ve been drained to set up golf courses. The surrounding areas are all fucked because the golf course screwed the land and it all drains into the surrounding area. You don’t get the same with residential or business areas, because there is a lot more room in those to put small drainage areas instead of just screwing everyone for the golf course.
Yeah, take that golf course, do something else with it, and use 1/80th of that land for a multipurpose field. The entire community will be way better off.
I didn’t say you can’t get rid of golf courses but suggesting we should replace them with utility grade power is idiotic… we are on an energy topic here, not are there better uses for golf course spaces? I am also not saying there are golf courses that were built in bad places… You’re making up arguments/conflicts that I didn’t propose.
I merely said all 3 can coexist and the logic to attack someone else's past time can easily be done. My community just voted for more soccer fields when I drive by the existing fields they are barely used outside of a couple hours for practice, occasional adult night leagues and weekends.
The other hilarious part, golf courses were shutting down and being sold all over the world until the pandemic. The pandemic unleashed an explosion of new golfers because it’s a sport that can be played safely with social distancing.
But ah yes let’s get rid of the golf courses, hockey rinks, soccer fields, tracks, football fields, rugby fields. We can build massive apartment buildings and solar farms instead. For some reason joy and sports that you find acceptable are the only ones humans can participate in because of your math equation! Lovely.