Golf and Global Warming

[PEI Golfing]

Very interesting article on how global warming will drastically extend the golf season in Canada. Hopefully some of us will still be around to enjoy the extended seasons.
http://www.eagleparbirdie.com/502267...al_warming.php


Here are some of the significant points in the report.

- The average number of rounds played was projected to increase between 5.5% and 13.5% by the 2020s. In hard numbers, that means up to 5 million more rounds per year.

- In the 2050s, the projected increase in rounds played is even more pronounced, ranging from 7.7% to 23.7%. It's all due to warmer weather early and late in the golf season.

- The golf season will be up to 7 weeks longer within 13 years and as much as 12 weeks longer by the mid 2050s.

- And in the 2080s, the golf season in southern Ontario could be year-round.

[jvincent]

Too bad I'll be long dead and buried by the 2080's.

[MusicMan]

woo hooo golfin 7 days a week when im 70! something to look forward to

[Kiwi]

By then all the golf courses on both coasts will be under water, so they better get building to get ahead of the rush

[ShagBag]

Jarred,

Don't get too excited, by then, I will be that 122 year old lady in the group ahead of you!

woo hooo golfin 7 days a week when im 70! something to look forward to

[Golfbum]

13.5% increase in rounds played? Hmmmmmmmmm that means I will be up around 188-190 rounds per season. Yeah, that will be about right. For this year

I AM A GOLF

It is going to get even better starting this year!
My wife wonders why I need 3 new pair of golf shoes to start the season

I don't know about the rest of you, but I am not feeling too much of that so called Global Warming right now. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr it is cold enough to freeze the nuts off a bridge.

[MusicMan]

Jarred,

Don't get too excited, by then, I will be that 122 year old lady in the group ahead of you!

[BullDog]

By then all the golf courses on both coasts will be under water, so they better get building to get ahead of the rush

No they won't - check out the Archimedes Principal. The scare tactic that oceans will rise is nothing more than that - a scare tactic. The oceans have not gone up more than a millimetre or something like that in decades.

So Pebble Beach and Crowbush should be safe - bring on the longer golf season!!