It's time for the PGA Tour and PGA of America to turn a green face toward the environment. It is a future filled with less irrigation, fewer pesticides, curtailed maintenance, more natural landscapes, additional native grasses and an abundance of brown fairways. All this will happen because golf, in the scheme of things, is nothing more than a recreational sport. Survival of the planet is crucial. Conserving water for a bloated world population is crucial.
Golf is a game.
Generally speaking, golfers are in a blind-eyed state of denial about this. Perhaps they don't care. The PGA Tour and the PGA of America, heavyweights both, have declined for two years to endorse a document called Environmental Principles for Golf Courses in the United States. Perhaps they don't care. This failure comes despite the fact the Tour, through PGA Tour Golf Properties, owns 16 TPC golf courses.