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| What are the greenest golf courses? |
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Golfers – and not just Tiger Woods – have some important questions to answer. Thanks to the creep of Big Golf (like Big Pharma or Big Oil, this is what I call the highly exportable multinational version of the game on championship courses where grass resembles carpet and lakes are Disney-blue), it's become a pernicious environmental hazard dressed up as quality outdoor time. But such is the impact of agrichemical use, petrol mowers and water consumption that there could be no quality outdoors left.
There are around 32,000 golf courses worldwide, and 17,000 of those are in the US, where golf courses use more pesticides than anyone else in the nation, including farmers. But it is golf's prodigious ability to drain aquifers that really sets off alarm bells. The world's golf courses require 9.5bn litres of water every day, so they're the last thing the world needs now. Cue a global scramble to build more of the wretched things – not least in water-scarce countries such as Cyprus, China and Spain.
Golf has historically been reluctant to step up to the eco plate. However, I sense something new in the air, apart from evaporating pesticides. The naturally rugged splendour of real links courses with real rabbit holes is being championed as an alternative. Meanwhile, there's golfenvironment.org to certify sustainable courses. Are the fairways finally getting greener?
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