Or a disc golf course. I have played golf before and, yes, it is nice to get out into nature, and yes a squarely-hit golf ball feels nice. But it’s no more satisfying a feeling than bowling a strike or spiking a volleyball. There are so many ways to get the feelgoods that don’t require flagrant water waste the way golf courses do.
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Bye@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Golf is actually a sport that should be perfectly playable without grass. Like use different grades of rocks.
radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
But isn’t disc golf often played by people with a functional frontal cortex?
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Define functional I guess, in my area it’s exclusively people who listen to too much Dave Mathews Band.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I thought it would be interesting to have a negative space golf course, where the entire thing is hard packed sand, except for the rough which is slightly looser sand, and instead of sand traps you have Grass traps, where it’s just a small area with uncut 6-12" tall grass that you need to shoot out of.
HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You should find a way to always have angry turkeys in the grass traps, kinda like the alligators.
Ooh… and you could do a hole like that crazy island one from Tin Cup, but instead of an island, make a drunk on a jet ski dragging an inter tube behind it.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 months ago
At this point it’s probably more because grass and dirt is the safest surface for all the old fudds that make up most of the playerbase to fall down on.
yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Even cooler would be playing golf without the clubs and just going for a walk instead like a civilized person.
Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 months ago
I’ve never really understood why golf courses always needs to look the same. Wouldn’t they be more exciting if they reflected the local ecology. I’d think it would be more interesting to play a desert course, a swamp course, beach course, forest course, bog course, etc. Then again, golf isn’t exactly known for being an adventurous sport.
Takumidesh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is basically disc golf.
Take an existing park/ site/ property / walking trail / hiking trail, and slap some baskets and a few tees (concrete optional in a ~3’x5’ square for the ‘tee’, but a marked off piece of dirt is also acceptable)
Course is in a forest? Better dodge the trees! The course near me encircles soccer fields and a walking path, another one near me follows along a creek.
There are courses that go under power lines and some that are nested away in between buildings.
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Snow golf.
Snolf.
Bringer of avalanches.
lud@lemm.ee 2 months ago
That already exists.
Pretty sure they use orange balls instead of white.