60.00% - Golf courses occupy prime real estate and bar virtually everyone from using it — the public subsidies many receive while excluding the public are hard to justify.
40.00% - Golf's core skills can be tested on a fraction of a traditional course's acreage — the full 18-hole format is tradition, not necessity.
Golf courses consume urban land that could otherwise house thousands or serve as public parks.
33.33% - Golf courses occupy prime real estate and bar virtually everyone from using it — the public subsidies many receive while excluding the public are hard to justify.
33.33% - The chemical inputs, water consumption, and habitat displacement of a golf course are significant costs for an activity that serves a small fraction of the population — a poor trade for land that could restore nature.
33.33% - Golf's core skills can be tested on a fraction of a traditional course's acreage — the full 18-hole format is tradition, not necessity.
100.00% - Golf courses consume urban land that could otherwise house thousands or serve as public parks.
0.00% - Golf courses are waste of land.
50.00% - History of golf