Missing this one on Bainbridge Island, outside of Seattle: https://nwhickoryplayers.org/2015/08/ccs/ Believe it is only open for residents in that area
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Show HN: I mapped every US golf course
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#92No information on Olympic Club. I’m a member. Let me know if you need info for filling the gaps there.
you can fill out missing info right on the site. There is a buttons for missing/ correcting data and you can fill out any info. Appreciate any that do!
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#93I 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…
Are you saying your country's government, for some reason, spends its money on private golf courses?
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#94Possible bug: Went scrolling way East on the map for kicks and was surprised to find 14 courses on Guam, but also that the data don't repopulate as you make it back around the globe a second time. This seems to happen in both directions—eg Guam doesn't populate at all if you scroll West.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
In wealthy parts of the US, maybe The vast majority of the world is nothing like this From Scotland to Tasmania, most courses congregate around already wet and mostly sand/loamy soil (largely unusable for other purposes without major construction) I agree with you for artificial American places like TPC Scottsdale or Wolf Creek GC etc
I’m an avid golfer and I live in Scotland. I’m not going to pretend that they’re bastions of sustainability - it’s not rained here in 2 full weeks and my course is watering their greens and fairways. We’re not quite at drought but the UK has a hosepipe ban in place and yet courses are continuing to water and maintain. On the suitability of the soil, for some courses yeah. For the vast majority - there’s 4 courses wit…
Let's give a "Hip Hip, Hooray" to your links courses and the Champion Golfer of the Year. What a putt!
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#96I 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…
In the US many golf courses are owned by local governments as part of public parks.
Many new courses in the US are also built on non-developable land like former landfills.
Not trying to defend all courses, but at least in the US it’s not just uniformly bad.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the USA they are overwhelmingly public and are desperate for customers. The handful of private ones near me are also desperate for new members, and several country clubs have ended up closing. Considering some of the golf courses that have closed around me ended up being converted into Amazon distribution facilities, I am not terribly excited about the idea of more golf courses closing.
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.
Don’t forget the tax breaks! Some places (many?) use farm rates for the tax rate.
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#98It turns out people have even mapped individual greens, fairways, bunkers, etc on OpenStreetMap! So you can use that data to generate a yardage book for each course: https://npilk.github.io/openyardage-web/
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#99So, I started https://golfcourse.wiki in 2020, and I see courses that basically only I’ve mapped. It’s cool, I want it to be public, if you want to work together, do reach out. I would also say what you are doing is almost certainly opening you up to liability if you are just scraping other sites and republishing their data. One paper town that you published and you might have a lawsuit on your hands. https://en.wiki…
There's already one club I can see on there that doesn't actually exist.
Is a running gag in the area where I grew up, and made it on this list somehow. So that's weird.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
It definitely can be enjoyed, but does it beat a walk in the forest? Not necessarily. Golf is a social marker in Anglo-Saxon countries. Only the highest classes used to be able to afford it. In America they built a lot of courses because they have the space, and there was demand, obviously because lower classes wanted to feel like they’ve made it. Kind of like wearing tuxedos (or owning a Mercedes Benz in Eastern Eur…
Golf was democratized under Eisenhower. Today, demand is down because interest is cyclical and private courses are expensive.
Demand continues to go up. More golfers today than ever.
https://www.ngf.org/short-game/golfs-growth-era-the-road-to-...