Wall Water Features

What's the point of having water features at golf courses/resorts?

The lakes, the little creeks, etc...why?

Public Comments

1. To piss off a golfer more lol
2. They can be obstacles for the golf course or just cosmetic things that make the place look more attractive and less like a field.
3. Dear Alyssa, I don't know where you live in the country but in most areas ponds and lakes in addition to defining golf holes and natural beauty provide the water that is pumped on the course while we are fast asleep. Golf architects don't like the legal hassels fro divereting small creeks and even rivers. It's very costly in environmental impact studies. Many facilities pump water from the earth and that is a big concern. Reclamation of water is the norm in places like Arizona where by law golf courses can only have about 90 airable acres. That's why you see a tee box, scrub desert, a narrow fairway with both sides again being native scrub desert. The Native Americans are not subject to this law since the land they own is a reservation. On some golf facilities which pump water from a river of not the best water retention ponds are built and the maintenance of the watering systems is not compromised, plus it makes for a nice par three hitting over a fountain. Don't you think. One hint: NEVER USE A WATER BALL! Best of luck, hope I helped.
4. Besides adding difficulty, aesthetics, and mental frustration? Well, courses are typically judged by their slope rating, among other things -- people like challenges, courses with a high slope. High slope means there are alot of carries, and that means water and creeks. But theres also a very important course architecture reason as well -- every night the course is watered down to keep the grass fresh and regrowing quickly (otherwise divots would never go away and the course would be in bad shape). All the excess water has to flow somewhere -- so creeks are created through the course to diverge the water to the lakes. The lakes are typically used as a reservoir to water the course, especially during droughts and water restrictions. Most of that water the grass is watered with is "reclaimed" and not from city sources or wells. This makes the course cheaper to operate.