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MrBillM
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Goofy Golfing
You're tilting at windmills if you think there is any possiblility that there won't be more and more golf courses built on the coast whenever
possible. The reason, of course, is that they are great revenue producers. Golfers are dedicated (fanatic ?) and are willing to lay out a lot of
dough to play the game. Down in Palm Springs a great deal is to be able to play a course for under a hundred bucks and golfers will endure all sorts
of adverse conditions to play. The most memorable photo I've ever seen of golfers was on the front page of the Los Angeles Times during the Lebanese
Civil War. It showed members of the U.S. embassy out on the golf course in Flak Jackets.
Having played the game in High School and afterwards, I just don't see the fascination. Different Strokes, I guess.
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elizabeth
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Not to speak of the use of herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers, etc., on the courses, and what happens when residues end up in adjacent
watercourses...streams, mangroves, estuaries, lagoons, etc.
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Sharksbaja
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Can they produce....
....anything positive. If not, who the hell cares anymore about the rich and spoiled and their stupid game.
A doctors playground. hahahaha :moon:
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To each his own.
Golf is fun. Especially seaside golf. In February we golfed at Bajamar and witnessed a mother grey whale nursing her baby just inside the kelp while
playing the four holes that are perched along the rocky shoreline there. It was great. I embrace the privilege to take a "good walk spoiled" at any
opportunity.
Golf courses use LOTS of reclaimed water where I live. Water that the public won?t drink because it once went down a toilet, never mind the fact that
it is PERFECTLY healthy to drink.
I surfed with my father until he was well into his sixties. He is now 80 and we spend 4 or 5 hours 3-4 times a month chasing the little white pill
thru the grass, cactus, rocks, whatever and ALWAYS have some laughs and a very good time. It is quality time that we both cherish.
I am not saying that every bit of open seaside space should be turned into a golf course, but...............
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neilmac
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who cares?
| Quote: | Originally posted by Sharksbaja
....anything positive. If not, who the hell cares anymore about the rich and spoiled and their stupid game.
A doctors playground. hahahaha:moon: |
Who Cares?... the ones who collect when the 'rich and spoiled' pay their tab.
Problem is, the 'r & s' pay with cash, of which they have much, the rest of us pay, too.... with quality of life, which is getting poorer and
poorer.
A few collect, yes, but everyone pays.
Neil
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PacO
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Well hell, I plan entirely on being rich someday.......and I will spoil the chiite out of myself and my family when I get there. Won't do me any good
to take it to the grave.
Being middle-aged now, though, golf looms on the horizon for when I am to old to do anything fun.
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Playing golf is fun and good exercise.
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turtleandtoad
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You'll never stop coastline development completely so, in my opinion, a golf course is the lessor of two evils. The other being hotels and high-rise
condos blocking the coastal view and cutting off beach access completely.
Can you say " Cabo tourist corridor"?
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Sharksbaja
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Maybe you guys haven't seen Hawaii...
| Quote: | Originally posted by turtleandtoad
You'll never stop coastline development completely so, in my opinion, a golf course is the lessor of two evils. The other being hotels and high-rise
condos blocking the coastal view and cutting off beach access completely.
Can you say " Cabo tourist corridor"? |
and the miles of unspoiled golf courses.
The beach transition zone should be a corridor for animals as well as humans. Not for privledged golfers. But then again, whoever said golfers were
environmentally sensitive
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Dave
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| Quote: | Originally posted by rpleger
Playing golf is fun and good exercise. |
Yeah, unless you're serious about it. 
IMO, there isn't a spot on God's green earth that wouldn't look better with golf course.
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There is what, 2,000 miles of coastline around baja? I would say there are maybe less then 10 golf coarses on the water and 7 of those are in Cabo. I
think there are a lot worse things being put next to the water in Baja, then again, I am a golfer. Just my two cents..
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Barry A.
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I never play golf-------
but I agree with Dave, and the others who support golf and the courses. I have never seen a golf course that I thought was ugly, even on the coast.
We go to Hawaii fairly often, and the golf courses there are truly beautiful.
As we all realize, especially recently on this "board", we have many, many diverse opinions. Ain't that great???
Barry
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jerry
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the other guy
im not a golfer thou my folks owed a course for a decade
what bothers me here is the attude if i dont like it it must be bad
but if i do like it, it must be alright
a tourst in another country is messing up the culture??
a reastarunt on a west coast bay draws ppl and pulute the area??
four wheeling is ruining the back country?
fishing depleting the sea?
golf course on the cliffs riuning the view
my spelling messing up this thread
i ask you all to be carefull when wishing away someone elses
pleasures as their wishing away yours
each time we try to takeaway someone elses right to life as they like it we loose somemore of our own
let it be, let it beeeee let it beeee let it bee speaking words of wisdom let it bee eeeee (by some bugs)
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Sharksbaja
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anywhere?
| Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
IMO, there isn't a spot on God's green earth that wouldn't look better with golf course. |
You gotta be kidding, Dave
Many belong elsewhere in my opinion. Can you imagine one put in on your favorite secluded beach. Kinda out of place, like a New York Deli in Baja
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Barry A.
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Jerry-----------WELL SAID !!!!!!
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Dave
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Sharksbaja
Can you imagine one put in on your favorite secluded beach. |
OK, everywhere except my secluded beach.
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MrBillM
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Efficient Land Use
This reminds me of an idea I had some 40 years ago.
Given the fanatic attachment Golfers have for the game, I proposed that the courses serve a dual use as cemetaries. Truly dedicated Golfers should be
willing to pay extraordinary amounts to be buried on their favorite course. Sites could be priced according to their location, the lowest prices in
the rough and the highest on the greens.
Anyway, just an idea.
[Edited on 8-1-2005 by MrBillM]
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Golf
I golf, you fish, he offroads, she jet skis. None are without a price environmentally. I was trying to think up a response to this post when Jerry
took care of that for me. I couldn't have said it better. Thanks.
PS: The course in Loreto has more birds, foxes, lizards, bobcats, and coyotes than I've seen anywhere else in Baja C in more than 50 years of looking.
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Sharksbaja
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| Quote: | Originally posted by tehag
PS: The course in Loreto has more birds, foxes, lizards, bobcats, and coyotes than I've seen anywhere else in Baja C in more than 50 years of looking.
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And you think that's natural. Because there is no cover you can see them. In their natural habitat you won't. Does that mean anything to you. Think
hard.
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"Does that mean anything to you. Think hard."
Careful Sharks, the coop group will accuse you of scaring away the newbies
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