How are Golf courses justified when...?

Question

so much land, water, and toxic pesticides/herbicides go into maintaining them?

over 14,000 courses in US

350,000 gallons of water/course on average depending on time season and size of course

at least 250 acres of land

Answer 1

Golf has become a major pass time for the entire world. In many respects you are right, but there have been a lot of improvements over the years to make them more environmentally friendly.

There are other industries which are for more polluting that golf. Look at chicken ranches. Very few farms have done anything to reduce waste or its impact on the world.

Having some fertilizer washed into our potable water system doesn't seem nearly disgusting as all the chicken poo.pp

Answer 2

I was not aware they were ever justified.  They are private enterprises for making money.  It happens that they are pleasing to the eye and usually have lots of birds and rabbits in them, but that is a by-product; the main focus is money.

Answer 3

To make the rich people happy.

Answer 4

One of the cause of global warming.  And people wonder why  unknown diseases pop up out of no-where's.  Cancer rate rising higher all the time.  Christ Jesus needs to hurry and come to clean up the evil men's deeds.

Answer 5

The golf courses need to be maintained in a green way.Green technologies are to be used in doing away with weeds