Re “Is your golf course really ‘green’? Here’s what one course is doing differently.” (May 14): Can you say “lipstick on a pig”?
Golf courses can “save lots of water” only because they consume lots of water! Their excuse that it’s not potable water doesn’t hold water (sorry!) because all water can be treated to be potable.
Ninety million gallons of water per year for one golf course — that’s 1 million person-days of water or the amount that 2,740 people use in a whole year. That’s a lot of water for an elitist, exclusive and very expensive “sport” that very few can afford.
And in our home-scarce state, golf courses consume huge amounts of prime real estate, too. According to the author, one 18-hole course takes 110 to 115 acres. That’s enough for 400 single-family homes, or 3,000 homes at the R-30 zoning for multifamily homes.
Golf courses are a luxury that we don’t need!
— James Wang, Cardiff
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