Venezuelan Prez Hugo Chavez: "Golf is a bourgeois sport," shuts down courses.

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Chaotic42

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Originally posted by: DukeN
I absolutely love golf (and basketball) but the one positive here is that it will be for that country's environmental good. A golf course takes up four times the water in a day that an average family uses in a year.

Is that in addition to the rain which will fall on it?
 

Schadenfroh

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Originally posted by: DukeN
I absolutely love golf (and basketball) but the one positive here is that it will be for that country's environmental good. A golf course takes up four times the water in a day that an average family uses in a year.

Fresh water is not a scarce resource in some areas.