Organic Golf Course: New Malton Golf Club To Become UK's First

The Independent:

With their diamond-patterned jumpers, neatly pressed slacks and expensive club memberships, most golfers seem to have little in common with the unwashed eco-warrior brigade. [...] However, this gulf may soon be bridged, as a Cambridgeshire club which boasts a full-time ecologist, not to mention a resident stoat at the eighth hole, is poised to become the UK's first organic golf club.

Read the whole story: The Independent

Comments

[ufopp]

10:18 AM on 08/31/2010

An organic golf course appeals as well as a humane slaughter house.

[HouseProletariat]

08:59 AM on 08/31/2010

As a resident of Florida, I shudder at the thought of all the nitrogen working its way into our aquifer. Some of our most pristine springs are becoming fouled with skin-irritating algae blooms. Organic fertilizers are nice, but they do not solve this problem. Nitrogen is nitrogen. We need to save fertilizers for crops, not yards and golf courses.

[hjalmar]

12:32 AM on 08/31/2010

An American Co. that creates organic fertilizers for golf courses and homeowners:

http://www.convertedorganics.com/

[hjalmar]

12:29 AM on 08/31/2010

As mentioned in the article, stoats kill rabbits (10x their size!) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNbqvqf3-14

[OneTop]

08:08 AM on 08/31/2010

Yes, excepting of course the Rabbit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail

[ontariogirl]

12:59 PM on 09/01/2010

You mean, The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog. The one with nasty, big, pointy teeth!

[BannedNBoston]

09:12 PM on 08/30/2010

I have heard that golf courses in New England routinely use more fertilizer and pesticides than they are allowed good reason to go green.

Genetic Modified Foods - Senate Bill S510
http://batr.org/gulag/082210.html
http://yupfarming.blogspot.com/2010/06/farm-animals-r-us.html
http://www.ellinghuysen.com/news/articles/105625.shtm

[Spank05]

08:30 PM on 08/30/2010

I'm not surprised that the UK is out in front of this.

Their links courses have been much more environmentally friendly for centuries.

UK courses use so much less water than US courses that it's not even funny.

Us Americans are too caught up in aesthetics on the course rather than how the course itself plays and how the course alters nature.

[KennebunkportIndependent]

09:18 PM on 08/30/2010

Every US golfer should play a proper Scottish link course to realise what the game is really like.