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Originally Posted by gomoho
The "walk course" I like that if only it were so. My only point is we all pay the same fee to support these beautiful courses and I WISH they could somehow be available to those that enjoy walking. There really is no beautiful place to walk here away from traffic and golf carts - so it was just one nature lover's soul wishing for the peace and serenity of a walk on the wild side!!!
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If someone as kind, reasonable and smart as you are think this, than many others do as well. I hope I don't hurt your feelings as I try to explain this.I have been living on golf courses or in golf communities for 40 years and it simply is a no-no to walk on the course, ride your cart on the course or do anything on a course if you are not playing. It is kind of like putting a lawn chair on a tennis court. It isn't logical, reasonable, or maybe even fair, but that is how it is. A very good friend was quite disappointed and annoyed to find that the golf courses weren't available for walking after hours. When you play golf it makes perfect sense. Others on the course are a distraction, and a danger. Even if it is after hours, people who don't play golf may not know that any impression in a sandtrap needs to be raked and the greens are VERY expensive pieces of grass to be maintained and that golf courses are beautiful and lovely spaces but made for golf and if you aren't playing, golfers consider that you are trespassing. That is just how it is. It doesn't make a lick of sense and I know it.
Gomoho, I would love to have you play golf with me and get you too all addicted and possessive of the courses and then I will lend you a book I have and many golfers have which is called "A Good Walk Spoiled".
And maybe even have a sign in your den like ours that says
Golf is NOT a matter of Life and Death. It is MUCH more important than that.
