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Post by crossroadsguy »

fluorinerocket wrote: post #151
crossroadsguy wrote: post #15

I am not sure how it is in USA but in my country golf courses are abuse of public resources for (almost) private use. For a very few who can lobby enough for renewal of these leases and these are kept out of reach of the normal public, either by rule or by cost, sometimes both. Golf courses are lungs of many of the growing cities, across the world, but I do believe they should not be kept exclusive. Also, this comes…

Why don't the "In my country" posters ever name the country

Because it doesn’t matter in certain cases and the needy may just click on the profile and kinda figure out if they are so inclined. Or someone can ask and they can reply.

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Post by nirali-shekhwa »

punnerud wrote: post #8

Nice job! When I zoom in on Google earth you can easily see if it’s actually a golf course or not, would been interesting to use this to draw up the areas with polygons and some more details. Then you could start providing a lot more details about each one automatically.

This would surely be helpful!

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Post by gnz11 »

trollbridge wrote: post #114
gnz11 wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Irrigation isn’t the only concern but also the loads of herbicides and pesticides that get dumped on them.

… which also happens if the land were people’s lawns, were farmland, or commercial space with lawns.

Yes, that’s also a problem too.

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Post by thunky »

scoofy wrote: post #159
thunky wrote: post #158

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> Because it's convenient to have all buyers operating through a single network I just don't see Golfnow as a "single network". I golf with a lot of people that have never heard of them. If a course isn't on Golfnow and I want to golf there, I still book with them however they want me to even though it's not as convenient. Just like Booking.com has competition from Google, Google also makes it easy to find and link d…

Networks are natural monopolies. It’s no more complicated than that.

Obviously it is, because Golfnow is certainly not a monopoly.

There are small golf courses near me that don't use them and that's fine. Please don't shame the ones that do.

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Post by receptopalak »

tysilva wrote: post #113

I noticed the site is actually quite slow to load on first visit (at least for me). Is it actually loading in all the courses up front? If so, a better experience would be a landing page where users can search or specify a geographic location - only loading in what is relevant for the query.

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Re: Show HN: I mapped every US golf course

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Post by scoofy »

thunky wrote: post #164
scoofy wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Networks are natural monopolies. It’s no more complicated than that.

Obviously it is, because Golfnow is certainly not a monopoly. There are small golf courses near me that don't use them and that's fine. Please don't shame the ones that do.

With respect, I don’t think you understand what you’re talking about.

They are far and away the leading tee time advertiser. The golf courses are the “customers” I’m worried about. They are operated by the parent company of the Golf Channel. Comcast was their long term owner until they got spun off.

There isn’t really many companies in the golf space that can compete with that. I don’t want to have to explain things like the Herfindahl–Hirschman Index. My point is that ultimately, these companies are natural monopolies, and should be regulated like utilities because of that.

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Post by rurban »

trollbridge wrote: post #55
contubernio wrote: post #53

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In the USA as elsewhere golf courses are incredible wastes of water and false green spaces that would function better as green spaces were they actually parks open to the public they serve the wealthy. What is different is that in the US there is very little real (operational) worry about waste of water (or other resources) - at least compared to other places - and there is lots of space compared to other places.

That is an overly broad generalisation. Where I live, golf courses aren’t irrigated at all - they just rely on rainwater, like every other farm does. One of the golf courses near me has tee times for $10. I do not consider that something that only “serves the wealthy”. They also periodically close the course and open it up for RC plane enthusiasts. Another one you can easily go for a walk in - I often do. It is effec…

I love golfing in England and Scotland! But in Germany it's hopeless, it's treated like exclusive tennis courts. Australia has nice golfing experiences also. But in the USA I never found affordable golfing.
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