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Re:Ice Golf by blhack on Saturday January 22, 2022 @11:54AM (#30038330)
Golf generally is a really fun sport, and I wish more people played it. It’s a very meditative thing.

The made up golf game I play with my nieces over the summer is to pick out a bunch of trees around yard as “holes”. Hitting the tree with the ball means sinking it. Lots of fun.

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Re:Ice Golf by sandworm101 on Saturday January 22, 2022 @11:58AM (#30038403)
Golf is fun, but depending on location it is an environmental nightmare. The amount of water sprayed on bare ground to make massive grassy fields, then the pesticides, all so a couple people at a time can push a ball around. On the other hand, ice and snow golf seems ideal.

When I was overseas we had a course made by spraying oil on sand to create greens and fairways. That was ironically more environmentally friendly than anything used by the PGA.

Like this, but ours was so dry that the entire thing used oil.

https://golf.com/travel/inside-sand-green-golf-rough-rudimen...

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Re:Ice Golf by stepanhruda on Saturday January 22, 2022 @02:01PM (#30039726)
Love minigolf, but regular golf takes up a ridiculous amount of resources per how many people can enjoy it. I wish it’d die.
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