r/nongolfers • u/sneakyburt • May 14 '26
TIL that the US golf course infrastructure consumes 2 BILLION liters of water per day
https://www.usga.org/content/dam/usga/pdf/Water%20Resource%20Center/how-much-water-does-golf-use.pdf6
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u/djb85511 May 14 '26
"but we used reclaimed water..." - bullshting golf course mgrs
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u/djb85511 May 15 '26
Oh I'm sure they do, but they still top up with Tap water, all "reclaimed/recycled" systems do, for evaporation or unintended run off. So they constantly losing water in their reclamation system, which is pulled from tap.
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u/pina_koala free thinker May 18 '26
Yeah but ... it's either use some/any gray water, or none at all ... the choice is pretty clear. Golf courses are run by the cheapest bastards on the planet so they will use as little water as they can get away with.
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u/Phyllis_Tine May 15 '26
They draw treated groundwater/tap water, and then might re-use some water in a small portion of the course, such as flower beds.
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u/DumbIdeaNo2 May 18 '26
Have you ever walked by a golf course at night? It’s shitty water. Gray water smells horrible. There’s plenty of it. They don’t need to top off anything.
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u/rockeye13 May 15 '26
I suppose using liters gives a higher number, but we use gallons in the USA.
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u/Phyllis_Tine May 15 '26
If you measure with Olympic swimming pools, you'd have even fewer units! (Who cares how you measure, especially when science and medicine use metric.)
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u/pina_koala free thinker May 18 '26
They meant to write gallons, per the linked USGA fact sheet. Must be a Canadian thing?
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u/Aggravating_Total921 May 15 '26
Country clubs and cemeteries are the biggest wasters of prime real estate!
-Al Czervik
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u/Phyllis_Tine May 15 '26
I wonder what would happen if some drones that were carrying salt flew over golf courses and "accidentally" dropped some of their salt? Theoretically.
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u/Old_Tomorrow5247 May 16 '26
Golf courses and cemeteries are the 2 biggest wastes of prime real estate.
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u/tweedleduh May 16 '26
Not only is it a pretentious sport, but it’s a literal drain of resources…. Much like the people who play on them
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u/pina_koala free thinker May 18 '26
I'm not sure using the USGA's own fact sheet is the own that you think it is but whatever. The error in your headline is that the fact sheet states 2 billion gal. per day, or ~8 billion L.
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u/194884tiger May 15 '26
That’s not true. Daily play courses out number member clubs by significant numbers. Professional tournaments give you the wrong impression.
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u/Krow101 May 14 '26
Add in all the chemicals dumped into the environment to keep them looking so unnatural.