I don't doubt golf courses use more water and chemicals, but grass on a soccer field or baseball field needs water etc too. Also maintenance, since you have people stampeding over it all the time. You can put a golf course in a non-level area, can't do that w/soccer & baseball, so the land is not completely substitutable.
The more upscale courses with higher-income customers use caddies. Some bar carts because they are harder on the turf. Some courses have carts and caddies, and yes, some golfers want the caddy to carry their club or the bag from the cart to wherever their fat arse is standing, replace their divots, rake the sand trap, etc. I doubt public courses bar caddies for turnover purposes. The clientele wouldn't want to pay more plus have to walk. When I caddied (in 1967 or so) you could make $15 for 18 holes. Today that would be $97. You can rent a cart these days for $20. Throw in greens fees and an 18 hole round on a public course could be $50. But you could easily spend that much going to a ball game. On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Michael Perelman <[email protected]>wrote: > I am not an anti-golf fanatic, but golf is very wasteful of water, uses > inordinate amount of chemicals. How many soccer or baseball fields would > fit in a golf course? > > I have posted to the list before the paragraphs from the Confiscation of > American Prosperity showing the negative association between golf and > corporate performance. That might be good or bad. > > Regarding Max's take on golf vs. sprawl, many developed used to build a > golf course on unused land as the first stage in starting a new development > (sprawl). > > Regarding caddies: don't many courses forbid caddies because golf carts > provide a faster turnover? > > Some courses are supposedly run on a more environmentally friendly way. > The chemicals can be regulated, but then capitalism could be overturned > also. > > > > -- > Michael Perelman > Economics Department > California State University > Chico, CA 95929 > > Tel. 530-898-5321 > E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu > michaelperelman.wordpress.com > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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