Like many of my generation I tried to take up golf because I was told it would be helpful to my career. I never really cared all that much for it but was I suppose passable on a Par 3. I couldn’t care less about playing golf now and the idea of living on a golf course just seems sort of stupid. The few people of my acquaintance who do have always had issues with strangers wandering around looking for lost balls or even broken windows. I think they should just let it revert back to nature or make a private greenway out of it and tear down the structures pertaining specifically to golf. That or develop it with more houses.
Just set up a migrant camp on the old golf course. Problem solved.
Don’t leave out the risk of getting hit by a stray ball if you go out in your yard during daylight hours.
Had a guy I worked with that lived on a city owned golf course. The city wanted to sell it and turn the fairways into greenways as they did not promote it.
He and one other guy went to every first and second tier property owner and they turned it into a thriving private club that was owned by the members. The city got more money and their country club and course was revived. The trick was they made appointments and went and talked to every property owner face-to-face.
In November 1991, leaving Korea enroute to Japan and Camp Zama, I was told part of my official duties as the NCOIC for DPCA was to ensure 80+ MWR facilities were properly secured (fixed in three weeks as I handled my orientation, and secondly to play Golf. In Japan Golf was the currency of millionaires with status. I played for three years, left Japan and sold my clubs never to play again. I hate golf. However, being in the concrete jungle called Tokyo or the small towns, the noise of the modern world can never reach a silent pitch - but on the golf course you didn’t hear a car, and you saw a stream, ponds, birds, rabbits, squirrels, hawks, ect., and the sounds natural. Golf in Japan serves to bring the city dwellers back to nature, but only for those who can afford it.