How much damage is caused to the natural habitat when a golf course is built?
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There are numerous ups and downs to building a golf course.  Generally, if a course if found to be in conflict with a particular "natural habitat", the golf course will not be built.  Most new courses have ecologists on the construction/planninf staff that study the potential impact before any dirt is moved.  If a course is build in a sensitive, many courses leave natural habitat areas that are off-limits to golfers, and try to preserve as much of it as possible.  Benefits to a course are open grassland areas, strengthening of the root system which helps prevent erosion, and a relative safe place for wildlife (for instance, many of the courses near me are home to deer, wild turkeys, native birds, groundhogs and small creatures, as well as black bears- golfers pretty much leave the animals alone).  A downside is the clearing of trees, but that happens everywhere, and at least they're replacing trees with grass and not condos.  The biggest negative is probably the pesticides and fungicides used to keep the grass in good shape.  However, many of these are also used on residential lawns, too.
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Links courses have a couple atributes.  First, they usually have few or no trees.  Secondly, they are usually placed in windy areas (ie near the sea or on a hill top).  Thirdly, a true links course will go in 2 directions, front 9 holes going away from the Club House and the back 9 holes come back toward the Club house.  That's why on a golf scorecard, the front 9 holes is your "out" score and the back 9 is your "in" score.\n\nAlso, links courses traditionally will have small deep sand bunkers, called "pot" bunkers, to make up for the lack of other hazards such as trees and water.
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Go here for reviews:\n\nhttp://www.golfdigest.com/hotlist
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I learned probably 80% of what I learned in golf from caddying for six years. You see a lot of different swings, good and bad. My suggestion might be just to watch a lot of golf; see what people do. See what's comfortable for you, then get out and practice, and find something that works. What Tiger does for a good swing might not be what you do for a good swing.
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On a 6200 yard course, that's about 3.5 miles.  Factor in walking between greens and tees and let's add another 60 yards a hole so that's about .6 miles, so we're up to 4.1 miles.  Now consider that courses are measured in a straight line from mid tee to front of green and consider I hit the damn ball all over the place, let's take that 4.1 miles and multiply it by a factor of 1.3, so we're up to 5.3 miles.  And consider that often balls are oddly hit in the woods or whatever danger lurks around the fairway and you need to tromp back and forth, back and forth, avoiding snakes and other hostile creatures and that's another .5 miles.  So we're up to 5.8 miles.  And finally imagine that since you have other obstacles like lakes and creeks that require you to veer from the straight and narrow and you have to wander around the green pretending you have a clue which way the putt will break, let's add another .3 miles.  So we're up to 6.1 miles.  And just for good measure, let's assume you have to walk to and from the car to the clubhouse then out to the first tee and let's call that .15 miles.  So I guess about 6.25 miles.  Since you ought to play that in about 4 hours, that's pretty good aerobic exercise.
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You should find what you need at the following sites.  The golf industry is suffering from to many golf course's, but with a little luck and www.playgolfamerica.com that will change.  \nhttp://www.gcbaa.org/ Golf Course Builders Association\nwww.golfdesign.org American Society of golf course Architects\n\n\nwww.gcbaa.org Golf course builders association
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depends on how big it is. here is a link that gives you how much damage that would be caused depending on its size, velocity, ect:\n\nhttp://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/
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It has 18 holes each holes have different distances from the previous ones. They each have different levels of difficulty based on the golf course.
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It is true that temperature will affect the distance of a golf ball. However, without knowing the exact composition or performing controlled experiments, it would be difficult to give an exact answer. \n\nBelow is a link to perform such an experiment. Measure the ball's rebound ability for 2 different temperature of balls, and you will get a good approximation of a percentage.\n\n**UPDATE**\n\nAs per your update, more information would be needed than just temperature to do this calculation, as humidity, atmospheric pressure, and type of clubs would have as much or more involvement than temperature.  I've included a couple new links that show some of the differences in ball flight vs. temperature, of particular note would be the last link, which has a calculator for your exact problem.
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Great idea!  Now take your money, buy a golf course and build the housing.  My only request is don't use my money to do it.
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http://www.southwestgreens.com/outdoor_putting_green.html
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It's golf! Links courses generally are open courses with no tall trees and small bushes and tall rough galore. I've played my fair share of links courses.
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Unless it was intentional, and can be proved, then no you are not liable.  It's called assumption of risk.  If you choose to purchase a home that is on the golf course you should know what to expect.
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Its a nice golf course.
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This was back in the 1980's at a new golf course called Riverside CC in Arlington Texas.  The golf course is very close to the baseball park so a lot of the MLB players played it.  We had a group of 4 Texas Rangers starters behind us.  I was struggling with the shanks I hit my drive to the right and it landed in the fairway of the previous hole.  I wanted to hit it before the group of baseball players finished teeing off that hole.  We had a group in front of us so no luck.  I had a 4 iron shot with about a 50% chance of getting over the trees.  The baseball players stopped to my right side, I told them to go ahead and they said they could wait.  My only thought was seeing myself on the news from hitting one of them in the head.  I hit the shot never saw the ball and didn’t hear it hit any trees.  So my training kicked in and I acted like it did what it was supposed to do.  I found the ball 3 feet from the hole.  I was shaking so bad a think I missed the putt.  I was only 17 or 18 at the time.
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ofcourse its  a good business to start...but it should look attractive and something different from all other golf courses..for example if u have been to grapevine mall in dallas u can see a mini golf course where everything will be glowing(with radium green,orange etc)..there will be no light etc..so u have to be creative somehow..
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There are many effects on the environment depending mostly on where the road is built.  The first effect would be to the wildlife of the area.  When trees and land are cleared for road construction, it results in the loss of habitat for many organisms.  For example, a single oak tree can support thousands of insects and hundreds of birds.  By removing that one tree, you have possible destroyed these organism's habitat.  Also, cutting down trees and clearing land add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.  Tree and other plants use carbon dioxide in photosynthesis.  They store some in their bodies.  This is released into the atmosphere which can add to the global warming problem.  That along with all the construction equipment letting out carbon monoxide and dioxide during the construction phase.  And that is just the surface of what is caused.