How much water must that waste every day?
Same with Palm Springs.
Deserts should not have golf courses, that's just insanity. But then the world has gone mad.
Could you make an exception for indoor putt putt?
To be fair, the Pyramids are right on the edge of Cairo and the Nile Delta which is missing from this image, so it's probably not too bad compared to the 10 million people living next door.
I would like golf a lot more if it used native terrain as part of the course. It's the whole bullshit with making the empty fields of grass that makes the game suck so hard.
Play golf in a damn forest, trees, bushes, creeks, and all. Next course, go play in an actual desert where the entire thing is a sand trap with whatever scant coverage exists. No putting there, you gotta find a way to get that ball to the cup (which might be full of sand if there's wind) another way. Next course, you're on a damn prairie with grasses as high as your waist, and you gotta hunt the damn ball down every stroke and hope the critters haven't stolen it.
Now that's a sport I can get behind
My first golf course I played and learned on was mostly desert and sagebrush.
You learn through pain when you're playing on hard desert clay. I never could afford decent courses growing up.
Damn! That would be a brutal terrain to play in.
Disappointed its not 90% sand trap but w/e
Doesn't get more late stage capitalism than this.
This is why I'm a non-golfer
They claim over half of all golfers do not play on traditional courses. Instead they play places like Top Golf.
I have no idea how they calculated that.
because normal people can't afford to golf.
they can afford golf clubs, however.
only people my entire life i have never known who golfed regular were rich business dudes, and their sons.
lots of people have golf clubs, but golf on a golf course like once every two years or less.
Of course it's Marriott.
