Golf courses actually see pretty frequent use; anybody who has played a public course on the weekend knows what it’s like to be constantly waiting to take your shot because the group in front of you is still putting, and the group behind is waiting to take their tee shot.

A much bigger waste of resources and land are the sterile suburban yards that barely get used at all.

I do wonder how much fertilizer runoff, herbicide use, etc the average golf course is responsible for