Residents’ Attitude Shifts in an Environmental Dispute: A Case Study of a Golf Course Location Dispute

The purpose of this study was to examine the popularity of screen golf, golf played using an indoor golf simulator, in Korea and to further explore its sociocultural significance. This study conducted a case study in which purposeful sampling was employed to recruit 15 participants. The results revealed that screen golf was popular in Korea because its facilities were easier to access; screen golf centers were found at convenient locations, and screen golf was more affordable than playing golf at the golf course. The combination of screen golf and the bang culture that is particular to Koreans has led them to accept the former as a familiar space for leisure activities. The results further revealed that screen sport has sociocultural significance in that its considerable popularity has led to the integration of virtual reality (VR) sports into daily life, thus making the division between sports and games less evident. Golf, a sport once considered as being an exclusive hobby for rich elites, has become popular among the general public, destroying the hierarchal notion that some sports harbor. This is meaningful as screen golf has played the role of an agent for sport socialization, encouraging people to participate in golf even on a course, unlike any other VR sport. Furthermore, this pastime has secured its position as a subculture in and of itself, becoming popular throughout the world.

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Determinants of public golf course visitation and willingness to pay for turfgrass enhancement: A case study from Oklahoma, USA

Journal of Cleaner Production ◽

10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.09.125 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 205 ◽

pp. 814-820

Author(s):

Omkar Joshi ◽

Charles Fontanier ◽

Dustin K. Harris ◽

Neelam C. Poudyal ◽

Gehendra Kharel

Keyword(s):

Willingness To Pay ◽

Golf Course

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Monitoring Ground Water for Pesticides at a Golf Course - A Case Study on Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Groundwater Monitoring & Remediation ◽

10.1111/j.1745-6592.1990.tb00327.x ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 101-108 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Scott W. Horsley ◽

John A. Moser

Keyword(s):

Ground Water ◽

Golf Course ◽

Cape Cod

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Analysis of the Possibility of Energetic Utilization of Biomass Obtained from Grass Mowing of a Large-Area Golf Course—A Case Study of Tuscany

Energies ◽

10.3390/en14175520 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (17) ◽

pp. 5520

Author(s):

Łukasz Sobol ◽

Arkadiusz Dyjakon ◽

Alessandro Suardi ◽

Rainer Preißmann

Keyword(s):

Organic Waste ◽

Biogas Plant ◽

Golf Course ◽

Golf Courses ◽

Waste Biomass ◽

Large Area ◽

Energy Expenditures ◽

Heat Demand ◽

Annual Biomass

The mowing of sports fields generates a significant amount of waste biomass which requires appropriate management. On the largest scale, this problem affects golf courses with a grass surface area of up to 100 ha. Currently, the main directions for grass clippings management include composting, grass cycling, and waste. A certain alternative may be the energetic utilization of grass clippings, which not only solves the problem of organic waste management, but also brings measurable economic profits in the form of generated electricity and heat. This paper presents a techno-economic analysis of the application of a micro biogas plant, fed with grass clippings from a golf course project in Tuscany, with a grass surface of 111.21 ha. It has been shown that the annual biomass potential is 526.65 tDM∙year−1 (±45.64 tDM∙year−1), which makes it possible to build a micro biogas plant with an electric power of ca. 46 kW. The potential amount of electricity produced during the year is able to cover 16.95–37.35% (depending on the season) of electricity demand in the hotel resort, which includes two golf courses and practice facilities. The produced heat in the amount of 1388.41 GJ, in turn, is able to cover the annual heat demand in the range of 7.95–17.24% (depending on the season). In addition, the electricity and heat produced exceeds the energy expenditures for mowing, making the energy balance positive. Unfortunately, the analysis showed that the construction of a micro scale biogas plant is economically unprofitable and is characterized (in the period of 10 years) by negative IRR and ROI (−17.74% and −34.98%, respectively). However, it should be emphasized that with the additional income resulting from the avoidance of fees for the export and management of organic waste and the reduction of fertilization costs (fertilization of part of the golf course with digestate), the application of a micro biogas plant may turn out to be economically feasible (NPV > 0).

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Intensive tourist-related urbanisation impacts on a mountain village: The case study of Veľká Lomnica in Slovakia

Geographia Polonica ◽

10.7163/gpol.0155 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 92 (4) ◽

pp. 395-408 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Lucia Petrikovičová ◽

Alfred Krogmann ◽

Dana Fialová ◽

Andrej Svorad

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Current Trend ◽

Golf Course ◽

Development Projects ◽

Golf Courses ◽

Political Transformation ◽

Development Activity ◽

Major Development ◽

The Impact

Abstrakt: A key feature of contemporary tourism is massive investment on the part of developers in tourism-related urbanisation, with this made most manifest in the construction of recreational apartment houses, and the expansion of ski slopes and golf courses. For obvious reasons, such activities are directed at traditional centres of tourism, which respond to the current trend towards hedonism present in society. However, major development activity has also taken place in municipalities in which tourism only began to play its more significant part once social and political transformation had already occurred. An example is the Slovak municipality of Veľká Lomnica, a village in which golf-course construction has initiated large-scale development projects. The aim of the work described in this paper was precisely to address this example in assessing the impact of tourism-related urbanisation on the municipality in question.

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Retaining Pond with Geosynthetics for Golf Course – A Case Study

Proceedings of the International Conference on Ground Improvement & Ground Control ◽

10.3850/978-981-07-3560-9_03-0317 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Satyendra Mittal ◽

Kamal Jain ◽

Vaishali Wayal ◽

Sweta N ◽

Shweta Kandpal

Keyword(s):

Golf Course

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Using Mental Skills to Improve Golfing Performance: A Theory-Based Case Study for Golf Coaches

International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching ◽

10.1260/174795409789577434 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 4 (1_suppl) ◽

pp. 223-245 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Jon Finn

Keyword(s):

Golf Course ◽

Mental Skills ◽

Practical Application ◽

Psychological Techniques ◽

Current State ◽

Skills Education

The manner in which golfers think on the golf course significantly influences their performance. In 2008, the author provided an overview of golf-specific mental skills with the intention of raising golf coaches' awareness of psychological techniques they could use to help their golfers think more effectively. The aim of this paper is to follow up the author's overview by providing an introduction to mental skills interventions, specifically focusing on how they can be tailored to individual golfer's needs, and how they can be applied, analysed, and evaluated to facilitate the performance of competitive golfers. This five-part paper will: 1) outline the current state of formal mental skills education among golf coaches; 2) introduce selected theories that underpin mental skills interventions; 3) address the role of golf coaches in delivering these interventions; 4) suggest some frameworks which might help to increase the effectiveness of these interventions; and 5) illustrate the practical application of these theories and frameworks by describing a mental skills intervention that was used with a tour-level golfer to improve playing performance.

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