EarthGolf

Following up on an entry posted back in April regarding the challenges facing seaside golf courses, Wild Dunes, located in Charleston, South Carolina, lost most of the eighteenth hole when it collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean in October.
Beach erosion, which had been nibbling at the exposed hole, has taken the green and the final 300 [...]

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Golf course architect Donald Trump continues to face hurdles for his “best golf course in the world” development in Aberdeen, Scotland.
As well as building the “best seaside course in the world”, he intended to develop a second course, a 450-room hotel, 500 luxury homes, and hundreds of holiday apartments.
But his plan to build part of [...]

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This is an interesting environmental note. The course had been using gray water to irrigate its fairways.
Sales and marketing director Tiffany Nelson said the root structure on the course has deteriorated since 2000, when it stopped irrigating with Central Arizona Project water and switched to reclaimed water.
The reclaimed water has high salt content, which [...]

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One of those “shoulda read the label” incidents at a busy Washington golf course means that they’re out of commission for a little while.
A government contractor mistook a herbicide for fertilizer and scorched 36 putting greens at Hains Point, one of the nation’s busiest golf courses and one of the few public tracks in the [...]

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Barnsley Gardens, a course located in Adairsville, Georgia, was fined by the EPA for filling 5 acres of wetlands during the courses construction. The course opened in 1999. (That means these violations occurred almost 10 years ago?)
The enforcement action was a result of an inappropriate claim under the CWA’s farm pond exemption. A farm pond [...]

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First, the article.
Golf courses could serve as important wildlife sanctuaries, scientists say.
“There are more than 17,000 golf courses in the United States, and approximately 70 percent of that land is not used for playing,” said Ray Semlitsch, a biologist at University of Missouri-Columbia. “These managed green spaces aren’t surrogates for protected land and ecosystems, [...]

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The US Senior Open is being played this week at Whistling Straits - a course I have a tremendous amount of fascination and respect for. I got my first look at it during the 1999 Club Pro Championship and have been gaga over it ever since. (I have to admit to restraining myself from going [...]

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The drought in Florida continues and the golf courses who aren’t following the rules are getting slapped with fines.
Failing to play by new watering rules could cost 13 South Florida golf courses cited for failing to meet drought-induced irrigation limits.
The South Florida Water Management District on Tuesday released the names of the golf courses, including [...]

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playing golf, you’re not the only one. (This blogger is not, by the way.) But take heart if you break a sweat each type you mash down on that gas-powered-climate-changin’ golf cart that others are thinking of ways to make golf more “eco friendly”.
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Yes, I was reaching with that headline.
Golf course architect Donald Trump is finding his dream of building the best-golf-course-ever-in-the-history-of-the-earth-and-I-don’t-care-if-you-think-otherwise keeps hitting snags.
My tribute to Hal Sutton - to keep it simple - let’s just throw up the links to the stories.
Bid to put Trump’s resort plan off course
Fears raised over Trump golf plan
Green concerns [...]

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