LUXURY GOLF RESORTS

Luxury golf resorts are an environmental disaster. Fact or fiction?

Every golfer should know the water and chemical usage of their local course.

“A Dangerous Game,” Trump National club in Bedminster, New Jersey, sucks up 50 million gallons of public drinking water a year, in a drought-prone and densely populated watershed. Yet the course pays only a fraction of the cost per gallon that homeowners pay. All so a couple of hundred fabulously rich members (the joining fee is $150,000) have intensely lush and manicured fairways year round. It’s one rule for the super-rich, and it’s one rule for everybody else.

In the case of the Las Vegas resort, they have a lake there that’s filled twice a year with 2 billion gallons of drinking water, just as a water feature for the golf course. I think there should be a ban on golf courses on that part of the world. Unless there’s a way of using artificial turf to create them, I think they are no longer sustainable and they should be shut down.

The bottom line is that these golf courses in the desert just shouldn't be built in the first place. They are completely unsustainable, they soak up billions of gallons of water, and the planet can’t afford them.
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