I fucking hate golf, and golf courses for this reason, HOWEVER they do make a somewhat useful end land use in reclaimed landscapes in urban areas (closed landfills for instance). I don’t get the need for greens etc. the original game started out on some Scottish moorland or glen, with native grasses.
I hate golf for reasons above, but I recently tried Top Golf, and if there is any sustainable future for the sport, that’s it.
A single fairway can serve ~100 tees with probably 500 people playing. And some of the games are super accessible to people of lower skill levels. We played a round of Angry Birds at a work party where the virtual targets were only maybe 25-30 yards away. Super fun.
I’ll second this. I hate "normal "golf but Top Golf is pretty fun. I like being able to get food and drinks too. It is quite pricey though so I don’t go very often (unless someone else is paying, lol). The first time I tried it was a vendor-sponsored event and I was like “huh, that’s kinda fun actually.”
Yeah, they have a big screen that maps a 3D Angry Birds piggie tower over the fairway, and the birds follow the path of your ball. It really is an impressive 1:1 mapping.
You got me reading about it. It sounds pretty cool. Like a cross between a driving range and bowling and video gaming. I would totally suck at it, but I could see how that would be fun.
Just gonna say that golf is fun but I never played the real thing since it’s expensive, just golf videogames, minigolf is the one that I think it’s boring.
The modern game, certainly, but I’d be surprised if they had the original idea. A quick wiki suggests it may have been the Dutch who laid the concept.
I’m no historian, but I’d agree with this out of the fact that I live an hour away from Scotland. The Scottish wouldn’t think up hitting a wee ball with a wee stick. Remember, these people literally throw tree trunks (caber toss) and rocks (stone put) for sport.
I do, however, believe they’d have great fun with the idea of smacking a ball really hard through the Highlands.
At least in my country every city, no matter how small, have some public football pitch. And almost every neighborhood have some mini pitch. I have no data, but I’m pretty sure that football sums way more area around the globe than golf.
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