The Greenskeeping of America
It isn’t enough that we’ve done so much large-scale environmental damage that global warming is indisputable – at least in the Gulf of Mexico – Monsanto, inventor of corn not fit for human consumption that keeps turning up in tacos, has developed golf course grass resistant to their own weed-killers, and with pollen so light it spreads more than 13 times further than they’ve bothered to test for, raising the possibility of a new kudzu, but prettier and puttable. Golf is a big, rich industry – ask my M&P in North Carolina; or watch the “desert classic,” where golfers propel their little white, dimpled ball from green swath to green swath, surrounded by cactus and desert scrub – so it’s no surprise anyone would spend money to make it more possible to install more golf courses. And as more of my boomer siblings adopt golf as a social and business networking tool, more golf courses are more necessary. Unless we learn to share better or take up tennis. Still, always looking out for the “easy way” isn’t always going to be the best option. And when the Great Plains have been inundated with this stuff, we may yet regret our passion for just another sport.