Matt Whiting wrote:

I suspect the driver, pun intended, :-) will be a shortage of
water given population trends in the US.

I doubt that. While golf courses use tremendous quantities of water, it doesn't
have to be potable. In areas where the water table depth makes wells
prohibitively expensive, there may be no alternative for a course, but in most
places, there would be.

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.