https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...sh-golfers-creating-FAKE-greens-rob-them.html Anyone who thinks that's pretty damn clever of those crooks, setting up fake greens so those tartan-trousered gonks take their stupid electric carts off into the wilds, where they can be subjected to the good old 'stand and deliver!', so beloved over the centuries, is obviously completely wrong. One of the golfers got relieved of a £16,000 watch. Another one went to the clubhouse £1300 lighter. Imagine carrying around that sort of cash or wearing a watch like that while playing a game. We can only condemn those naughty sharp-witted inventive robbers and hope the poor thick rich golfers don't experience TOO much trouble filling out their holiday insurance claim forms.
The way I’m playing at the moment they needn’t bother with the fake green, chances are I’ll come and find them!
Golf takes up far too much space that people could be living on or everyone could be enjoying. It’s robbery.
It's one of the most environmentally destructive sports known. In a world with increasing water supply problems surely it's days are numbered. My dear dad tried to get me interested in the whole thing. Not a chance.
Golf is played in the main by the working classes. Some of the best golfers I know are roofers, gas workers, builders and a bloke who fits tyres. You lot really need to stop reading the Daily Mail.
I expect there are far more working class people who would like their children to be able to afford a home or get social housing than play golf. But I don’t have anything against golf, it’s just another form of hitting a ball with a stick. I’m just fed up of poor land use in this country. Large proportions of it are owned by individuals or companies and we can’t walk on it, build on it or play there. House prices are through the roof, social housing scarce, new gardens tiny. Devoting large tracts of land to a few hundred people, simply because they were able to buy 50 years ago when it was cheap seems eccentric given those needs. By all means play golf, but you can’t also have half of Britain in the ownership of private estates. Something has to give.
Water levels are rising. I love golf. Love playing it and watching. Not expensive or it doesn't need to be, excellent exercise, fresh air, what more could you want.
Quite, when the club explored using the land of the recently closed Bushey golf club, the nimbys went out in force to block plans for WFC to create jobs and income for the local area and with access from the A4008 wouldn't have created much more traffic. If they don't want the land used for something useful, why weren't they playing golf enough to keep it surviving?
I enjoy playing golf but I always seem to struggle on the hole where you have to get your ball through the windmill
It cost's £12.50 to play Haste Hill which is a decent coursse in decent nick. That's 4 hours of entertainment and a 6 mile walk. (7 miles+ for me due to the zigzagging). Second hand clubs are relatively inexpensive. Yes you can spend thousands on private club membership and top of the line equipment but for the vast majority it's a very cheap rewarding way of getting a bit of exercise.
Golf is too bloody difficult. Haven't used my clubs in >15 years, but hung up my clubs as a winner. My team won one of these "client golf day competitions". The 3 of us scored 97 points. I won 2 of those points. I went up to collect the trophy.
Do you mean sea level ? Water levels are not rising if you're talking about aquifers given the amount of abstraction. Particularly in arid areas where water conservation is already a priority. They are an obscenity. Areas such as the mid-West US, Gulf and Australia and soon in southern Europe on a regular basis. There's precious little to recommend them to wildlife given they are entirely man made creations sweeping aside natural habitat and having extensive modelling to move soil about. Before being inundated with pesticides and herbicides that run off into the watercourses. Their effect in the developing world is even more marked. Just so tourists can have a swing. You have locals without clean drinking water while the shiny golf resort guzzles it's way through thousands of litres a day and the attendant pollution. It would be great to see the likes of West Herts GC returned to native woodland, oak and beech climax.
