Original sentence: Also, many pesticides and lawn grooming aids, foreign grasses, and even in some cases genetically modified grasses, are used on golf courses.Although golf is a relatively minor issue compared to other land ethics questions, it has symbolic importance as it is a game normally associated with the wealthier Westernized population, and the culture of colonization and globalization of non-native land ethics.Even in developed nations, golf runoff is sometimes identified as a factor in cancer and other environmental health hazards.Finally, most golf courses are on land that used to be forests, as opposed to the moors of Scotland or grassy hills of Ireland.Golf courses have tended to become more controlled and their terrain more specifically changed and designed for the game - accordingly, they tend to have a quite high environmental impact although some designers have sought in recent years to minimize this.Golf was removed from the Olympic Games in 1908 in part because of these issues, whereas luge was cut back also in recent years.One consequence of the availability of more high-tech equipment to drive balls further, is that golf courses have tended to become larger.Resisting golf tourism and golf's expansion has become an objective of some land reform movements, especially in the Philippines and Indonesia.Similar charges have been laid against luge runs.The popularity and status appeal of golf in such crowded countries as Japan and Korea has led in some cases to eviction or murder of farmers (e.This leads to charges that golf courses contribute to deforestation.golfers, disc golf, Ryder cup, Golf Instruction, Timeline of Golf History 1353-1850, Timeline of Golf History 1851-1993.in the Philippines) to gain access to lands they didn't wish to sell, and damage to the local agricultural economy due to pesticides, which are poorly regulated in developing nations
Edited sentence: See also: golfers, disc golf, Ryder cup, Golf Instruction, Timeline of Golf History 1353-1850, Timeline of Golf History 1851-1993