What if global warming had an impact on your golf game? Would you be more concerned about the environment? Well it can and you should. According to a study by the Longitudes Group that is published in Golf Digest magazine, of the more than 1,000 courses considered coastal, over half of them will disappear if seas rise two meters.
Granted if these courses do flood then we will have more problems than less tee-times at inland courses but it is something to be concerned about. It is easy for people to throw out the idea that seas could rise. It is tough to imagine, but the north pole ice pack is the thinnest it has been in years and Greenlands ice pack, second only to the antarctic, is melting as well. All that ice, water that is, has to go somewhere and that somewhere includes our golf courses. It’s time to yell fore.
Golf Digest has this great chart to show if you favorite course is in danger of flooding. You may just need it for to plan a future golf trip.
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