Green Daily

Golf Digest recaps the efforts of the golf industry to attempt to go green, amidst golf courses' many problems, including their maintenance, which requires massive amounts of water and chemicals.

John Barton spoke with experts about these attempts to green the green, and here's what he found out. According to these experts, golf will face a crisis over water in the future, as there simply won't be enough water for golf courses to keep using. According to one report cited, the average golf courses uses up to 300,000 gallons of water per day. Solutions include using wastewater for watering, raising mowing heights and using new strains of grass.

Pesticides, and finding eco-friendly replacements, are another problem. And finally, Barton concludes that another of golf's problems is the fact that environmentalism isn't going away and the "freakishly green wall-to-wall grass on a life support system of too much water and toxic chemicals," will go the way of the SUV, "less admired and even stigmatized."