Watering?
As an exponent of the ri inning game firm fast surfaces are the way to go.
Grass is not really green it is only that colour if water and chemicals are added.
Many courses in the UK on water to keep the grass alive, sparingly.
It means you have a greater need to learn all the interesting shots that make our game great.
Georgia is not California. It receives 42 to 46 inches of rainfall a year. Southern California is a desert which has been altered by extensive irrigation. The population has exceeded the existing supply of water. Golf courses will adjust if they want to continue to operate and if people really want lush green courses they can move to the northern part of the state which has enough water or elsewhere. Thirty eight million people more than one tenth of the US population, most of whom are concentrated along the southern coast, is the real problem. The drought will end but water will continue to become a more expensive resource. The forces of supply and demand will determine how the water will be allocated.
We here in Ca know that we need more water storage by deepening our current reservoirs and building more for times of drought but our political in power just overlook the needs we have and line their pockets.
Since it takes 5 gallons of California water to produce each and every walnut, and 1 gallon of California water to produce each and every almond, Gov Brown decided to take political action by not reducing water for that use and cut everyone else. I'm not so sure that we need walnuts and almonds so badly.
Our local golf course in North Georgia gets all its irrigation water from a big spring that feeds several ponds. No guilt here. And none really for most of our state since we generally have an abundance of water from a bunch of different sources.
California has simply allowed too much growth for its water supply. Couple that with ideologically foolish environmental rules and the state is flirting with disaster.
Thought Pinehurst did a great job of proving "old school" golf was just fine. Doesn't affect me - I've played munis for 50 years with only the occasional trip to Pebble, Pasatiempo, TPC Ponte Vedra.
Two things: 1) CA is not GA and therefore GA need not be troubled. This is a lesson that had been learned, but has been forgotten - your neighbors troubles cannot be solved by sympathy or guilt or any other emotion that may be drawn up from the depths of your psyche. Consider this question: does anyone actually expect a club thousands of miles away in an area that is blessed with sufficient rainfall to squander that advantage by deliberately taking action to reverse their good fortune. Absurd on its face!
2) CA is partly to blame for its condition. Its population growth has outstripped its water resources. Even before the long-lasting drought, which, by the way, will not last forever. The weather patterns that plague the Western states at present are certain to change. But then we will be reading about the flooding, the homes sliding into the ocean, the crops that have been ruined due to the untimely rainfall. And one other thing we will be reading then: poor CA, how bad things are for those folks.
3) Sorry. I underestimated. There is also a political element to this situation that should not go unnoticed. The government has long been in the hands of incompetent ideologues who neglected to take those steps necessary to prepare for the conditions that now plague them. Yes. You did not read it first here. It was in the papers years ago.
This uber hype is driven by "climate change/global warming" or whatever they call it by the NWO alarmists. Emerald green lush gilf ciorses is not the way of historical original golf courses. They were rough and ruddy.
Year after year, water in California politicians protect tiny fish as water is diverted eventually to the ocean. How many years do we have to hear about this "crisis" until someone decides agriculture, employment, and human health should share water with the protected snail-darter. Or, maybe ski resorts should make lots more snow in winter if melting fails to meet spring needs.
I live in Sun Diego. 5,000 new housing units are currently being built in Mission Valley. Thousands more condos and apartments going up downtown. Talk is of 6,000 units at Qualcomm if they redevelop that. This doesn't even include the commercial and hotel units. I don't think the golf courses are the problem. Leave the golf courses alone.