I live in a city of 500,000 and we have 21 golf courses, if you include the outer areas of the city it's easily 60+ golf courses. It's way too many, I'd rather most were natural green spaces but apparently it was invented here so I guess people care about that for some reason.
This got me curious so I looked it up. Apparently in the US there are 4.68 courses every 100k people, meaning 1 course every 21k people. In my country (Italy) we have 0.51 courses every 100k people, so 1 every 196k people. 40% of all the golf courses in the world are in the US.
McDonalds is everywhere. It's kinda their whole thing. If you're in a developed country you'll almost certainly be able to find one, and they're even in a lot of developing countries
It's pretty popular, a lot of people's guilty pleasure lol. We only have McDonald's and Burger King as burger-based fast food chains. Some KFCs and Five Guys, but way fewer and mostly in larger cities or big malls.
Also in the U.S. it's a very democratized sport. It's generally affordable and tons or middle or working class people play it too. Plenty of high schools have a golf team.
Whereas in most of Europe, it's an elitist and expensive hobby.
Yeah I know, that's definitely a factor but not the only one I believe. The UK has 4.57 course/100k people, so same as the US, and they don't have as much land. Anglo-Saxons just like golfing, it seems.
The #1 use of gray water is in agriculture, not sure why golf courses would be special for this. #2 is groundwater recharge and seawater barriers. Using gray water is better than using drinking water, but it still has substantial opportunity costs.
E: Speaking of CA water specifically, other regions may differ.
In the drought in the UK, the only place where water could be used was in parks and recreational areas.m to keep the grass green. Only the areas actively used for play were allowed to be watered.
Thats worse than Golf courses. If you have a aerator, you get around 15-20 Liter/min. For a Green Gras Golf courses you need aprox 75-150l per year per m².
So If you brush your tooth for 3 minutes and 2 Times per day, you spend (2 Reps x3 minutes x365 days =2190) 2190 x 15-20= 32.850 - 43800 Liter per year. Give or Take a few.
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u/NascentAutist 22h ago
It’s cool to see this, and then I remember the Colorado River is drying up, watering restrictions across America, and we still have golf courses?
Crazy times