Posted on 12/10/2021 3:23:49 AM PST by Libloather
Yep. I played a course Kauai. I can’t remember its name. It was pretty and lush.
I was going to make the point that here in the low country many of the golf courses have been built on land reclaimed from sand dunes and marsh land. Believe me, there is no shortage of sand dunes and swamps around here.
I am a horrible golfer. I play 2-3 times per year. Typically at conventions(like in Coeur d’Alene) or company trips. When the company is paying the greens fees.
Last time I played was at The Mount Washington in Bretton Woods, NH in August. A tough course with great mountain views.
Typically that course is fairly dry because they do not have a lot of water there in that valley in the White Mountains. Even though the Saco river runs right through the course.
Other courses I have played on in HI were being paid for by my company. I am supposed to go to Cabo in April. They have a golf tournament scheduled for one of the days. I am sure it is a beautiful course built in the DESERT. My point is that courses in Scotland do not have hundreds of azaleas, rhoderdenrums, and other flowering plants all along the sides of the greens and fairways just to look pretty in the background. At Coeur d'Alene they have something like 50,000 geraniums planted around this resort course. It is VERY pretty. However, I can't even guess the amount of water they pull out of that lake every year just to make that course look pretty when it is 90 degrees out in July and August and 20% relative humidity.
The brother in law and sister in law live in Pawleys Island, SC. They play 3-4 times/week. Both are in leagues. There are 60+ golf courses to play at within an hour drive from their house. Like you say, they are in the lo country that gets plenty of rain. Some months/storms too much.
The tropics are perfect places for a golf course. The desert is not.
Most golf courses would make better rifle ranges, anyway. Maybe your country club could just change to a swanky shooting club?
These people are kooks, and probably hate that most golfers are anti-Left.
Every word of this article is wrong.
The overwhelming majority of golf courses are open to the public.
Agreed. Someone (not Mark Twain) called golf, “A good walk spoiled.” Personally, I think they’d be more useful as cemeteries.
Pawleys is 3 hours north of me. I live just off Hilton Head. There’s a lot of good golf in the Myrtle Beach area although Myrtle Beach itself gets mixed reviews.
Not around where I live. Most of them are private.
They tend to stay south of Myrtle Beach. It is too crowded. Traffic is horrible along the Grand Strand. They do not go much north of Surfside/Merrills Inlet. She used to work in Georgetown. He is retired.
In central Florida where I live there’s 50 public courses within 20 miles from where I live. But I get your point.
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