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Oddly enough, it’s the rising global temperature that is, long term, the greatest threat to golf.
Personally, I think we should adapt the game to play on a variety of terrains instead of just grass. Use native ground cover, that sort of thing. It would both keep things interesting and help the ecosystem.
God please. Its such a waste of land and built for rich people.
If someone wanted to turn all golf courses into community farms they would have my vote.
one of the local Green Party members here in Australia wanted to do that.
FUCK YEAH
I’m a communist and I love golf ! I just want it (and everything else) to be managed collectively.
Is that really too much to ask ?
Sames, imagine if they left just one course per municipality (minus where they don’t make sense, like the desert where there’s just way too many anyways). Drive all the carts into a recycling center and force everyone to walk? Great way to keep, especially older people, moving.
Golf in the desert makes sense, but then it ought to be based on the local plant life, not Scotland.
Golf is actually so off-putting sometimes because have you seen the average enjoyer? It’s like every frat guy, crypto bro and racist pool guys favorite hobby
I’m also convinced 90% of the players just want to walk around and drink outside.
That’s why I play and it’s awesome
The only person I know that play golf do it because he’s in real state and doing golf is “good to meet clients and close businesses”. He didn’t even enjoy it, it’s work meetings for him.
Whats wrong about walking around and drinking outside?
That’s because everyone can do it. But rich people want to do stuff only they can do so that they can distance themselves from us peasants.
Nice pun. You got it down to a tee
Do you play golf, or just going off stereotypes? It feels like you way overdouchified the people who just want to walk around and drink outside
I’d call it 50/50
If you haven’t seen George Carlin’s bit on golfing, stop whatever you’re doing and give it a watch.
Good. Golf is fucking stupid and requires huge amounts of space that could be used for parks instead
That’s capitalist golf.
Good, ethical golf of the proletariat happens anywhere you can place a can and the worse the terrain, the better the game.
Getting the ball up into the can is quite a challenge, innit?
Virtual golf is a thing now. It’s like a giant video game.
Basically, you hit a ball into a projection screen. It has fancy laser trackers that works out direction, distance and spin. You can even select to play famous courses anywhere in the world, where they’d never let you in, and you couldn’t afford anyways.
Doesn’t take much room at all. Indoors with all the creature comforts
Wow, I thought I was sold with communism as is, but now you add the eradication of golf??
jeez you don’t have to sell it to me harder.
dont have to share it to me harder #communist
what I would pay to live in that dream…
RIP Scotland.
Are you kidding me? Scotland would be cheering if they could torch the golf courses. Especially Trump’s. During his last regime, somebody in the crowd of protesters threw a bag of Cheetos at him when he went to his golf course. Smacked him right in the face IIRC.
I’m totally in for burning Trump courses. But didn’t golf originate there? I figured it would be a cultural thing. Did you all get tired of it?
I’m not from Scotland and I haven’t looked into the history of the sport, though I believe you’re right that it came from Scotland, but one thing I do know is that there is not a lot of wilderness left there and the Scottish absolutely hate Trump as one of the people destroying what natural landscape they have left with his golf course.
Lived a few years in Aberdeen, the birthplace of golf.
over there it makes sense. That grass grows naturally, everyone has a golf court at a walking distance, fun sociable walk (about 9 to 18km of walking), carts are practically banned there. it isn’t a rich hobby.
On a nice day you can see everyone golfing, even if it is a couple kids with a couple of clubs (no need for a whole set which you still have to carry).
It’s a genuine people’s sport.
Everywhere else? where you need lots of water and land to maintain, and it’s only for rich cunts with golf carts? fuck that.
Honestly I look at golf as a different sport entirely here in the US. It’s all about exclusive clubs, racist segregation, flagrant wasting of resources to benefit a tiny minority, and often using public funds to subsidize a shitty sport so rich people can pay less for their racist bullshit.
I do wonder how the average scotsman feels because your perspective from living there a few years doesn’t really tell us the entire story, just your POV.
didn’t say Scotland, said Aberdeen, look at the map, there’s like 6 full golf courses within the city, no matter where you live in the city, there’s always a course within walking distance. not sure about the rest of Scotland.
that makes a lot of sense. colonization and rich flaunting has the effect of transposing things to where they make no sense and requires destruction to make work at all. example that comes to my mind is how cheap concrete and steel construction being imposed on third world countries by its neocolonizers, places where its expensive to create and makes construction worse bc its not suitable for every environment. and the rich of third world countries picking glass metal generic skyscrapers to flaunt their wealth, constructing them in places where its horrible
That reminds me of when I was a kid and I and my family would play the home-made hybrid game “croquet golf” on our (very uneven) lawn. It was really fun. Essentially, it was golf rules with croquet equipment. My dad dug nine holes in our lawn for that game.
I bet the lower parts of Scotland (and probably most of the higher areas, too) was forest before humans started cultivating it.
probably, don’t want to get into exactly what’s natural or not. but it has plenty of grass dunes seas, put in a few sheep and you have perfect grass for golf.
We don’t need healthcare as long as the rich can play golf.
only if the rich touched the grass they played on
Especially with all the pesticides and fertilizer in those lawns. Might get rid of a few sooner.
Dude’s uncle isn’t rich.
Golf courses can fight AI data centers for water
and the loser is 99% of humans 🥳
Have communists ever started their position on the game of golf?
It’s such a wasteful use of land that is used pretty much exclusively by the bourgeoisie, so I imagine they don’t really need to.
I want this on a t-shirt.
