Nice! Someone shared thAT wiki with me recently on reddit. I had not been aware of it before. Great stuff!

I'm not a lawyer but my stack is clean. My base layer is OSM, which is licensed for exactly this stuff (and attributed). On top of that I used golfcourseapi.com which i also recommend (affordable, and fairly reliable so far, but not always current). Then community notes etc.

I cross reference against other sources but I am only publishing facts, which are not copyrightable in the US.

Would love to touch base one day and compare notes. I work in the golf industry so mostly just made this for myself. But after sharing with some friends and co workers i thought the wider golf community might appreciate it

In the USA they are overwhelmingly public and are desperate for customers.

The handful of private ones near me are also desperate for new members, and several country clubs have ended up closing. Considering some of the golf courses that have closed around me ended up being converted into Amazon distribution facilities, I am not terribly excited about the idea of more golf courses closing.

Yeah, I could imagine golf being a sore spot for Indians. I never imagined India would even be a hotspot for golf, but given the amount of corruption going on, it would make sense that golf courses would be foisted upon the public. It’s always discouraging to see the amount of upper class Indians who, despite colonial times being long gone, are still very willing to sell out their countrymen to appease whites or to fit a British/white ideal. I hope I’m wrong about this impression, and I’m just seeing cherry picked news articles, but your reaction makes me think otherwise….

US is a mixed bag. Where i am from, Michigan, we have over 600 courses and 87% of them are open to the public.

yeah i am pulling from OSM. I can probably draw those polygons. It;s been an OK source for number of holes etc but I need to cross reference to get other detailed info

that's the University of Minnesota Les Bolstad golf course

https://www.uofmgolf.com/teetime

retirement communities in florida have a lot of these weird mini private courses.

That seems slightly pointless no? I mean Singapore is small enough already, there probably is 10 courses maximum. The one I've seen is the Changi course, and I don't think it can compare to the average course size in the States

good idea!

Not a bad idea i have not heard of those

yeah mini golf would be a nice add. I'd like to get all practice facilities and indoor/ sim golf as well eventually.

Yes. After i work out best pipeline in North America id like to expand worldwide.

It will take some time i'm just doing this in spare time.

Yes. You can report any missing or bad info right in the course info drawer that pops up when selecting one. There is a button for sending corrections with a few fields but you can also just make a comment.

If you expand the filters, you can see it allows you to select public or private.

it does! pins are different color and it should label them. Might be some inaccuracies, but its pretty close. report any if you see any wrong

Yes. Canada and Mexico next. Then will move to EU Asia etc. Want to work out all the hiccups in US first

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probably and old site that now redirects.. you can report issues right on the site. community reports are going to be the most reliable for me over time.

The amount of water used is somewhat less important than what the source of the water is.

And it's important to understand that "using water" isn't like "using coal". In other words, while coal can be burned once, water is in a cycle that means water can be "used" infinitly.

But back to the source. A golf course near me takes effluent water (ie treated sewerage) destined for pumping out to sea. They spread it over a large piece of land. What is not consumed by plants, or evaporation, ends up in an underground aquifer.

So it "uses" a lot of water. But it's not using tap water.

Obviously this is not true for all courses. Hence the issue of "source", not "quantity" is material.