Comments on: Desert Willow Golf Course Resort – greener greens

By: nikons

nikons — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:05:01 +0000

Golf Courses are much more efficient at maintaining their turf than any residential or municipal entity. There is very little fertilizer run-off from a golf course and a lot of courses make every effort to capture even that. You so called environmentalists make these outrageous calims with no science to back any of it up. Golf Courses take up lots of space but they provide recreation for thousnads of people, they provide habitat for thousands of animals and most of all, they take up room that would otherwise be roads and houses.

By: hauler

hauler — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:21:27 +0000

This reduces the burden on the local sanitation facility, and helps the courses because reclaimed water contains nutrients that benefit turf growth.
Imagine what else could be done with so much land and so much nitrogen and so much work to keep it up.

By: maureen

maureen — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:20:48 +0000

Yes, these are some of the very reasons I’m filled with eco guilt when I play. There’s certainly room for much improvement in “greening the greens” everywhere, but at least DW has taken some steps in the right direction. Realistically, I don’t think golf courses are going away anytime soon so they really do need to become more ecologically sound.

By: vandroid

vandroid — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:55:16 +0000

Be it an “eco smart” golf course or not, it’s still a golf course. Golfing is one of the largest resource-hogging sports in the world. Whether Desert Willow advertises native plants or reclaimed water, there still is a a great demand to keep that greenway perfectly green, which requires tons of fertilizer, which then drains off and pollutes the waters that are being reclaimed at locations down the line. Imagine what else could be done with so much land and so much nitrogen and so much work to keep it up.