Golf Courses: The Unsustainable Scottish-American Dreamscape

Do golf courses need a revamp?

This episode reviews the history of golf from Scotland to the United States, highlighting the sport's societal impacts of racism and sexism, particularly with country clubs. Further, the environmental impacts of golf courses are all tied together with the tidy & clean American Dream, or illusion, dare I say.

References:

https://www.ngf.org/golf-industry-research/

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2021.630558/full

https://www.cartbarn.com/blog/what-is-the-history-of-the-golf-cart--48038

https://www.theringer.com/2021/4/7/22370057/golf-diversity-issues-history-pga-lpga-the-masters

https://www.top100golfcourses.com/golf-course/burning-tree-club

http://montgomeryhistory.org/pdf/46-4.pdf

https://fisherpub.sjf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1338&context=ur

https://www.golfpass.com/travel-advisor/articles/grass-over-garbage-golf-courses-give-landfill-sites-a-second-life

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/12/07/golf-courses-multiplying-on-formerly-unusable-landfills/9d1e97d4-77ab-4230-9d20-605b99053b23/

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