06-01-2020, 08:03 AM
(05-31-2020, 02:32 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: They don’t have to be. City-owned golf courses are for the benefit of the citizens of the City; if a greater benefit can be had by opening them for walking than by opening them for golfing, then they should be for walking.
Full disclosure: I have never played golf and have no intention of ever playing that game. As Mark Twain once said, "golf is a good walk spoiled."
I would go much further than ijmorlan and say that all golf courses within the city should become public parks. When Rockway (public) and Westmount (private) golf courses were established, they were on the edge of the city. And that is where they belong today. It just makes sense. Once a golf course is surrounded by the city they should be turned into parks for all to use. Can you imagine how awful KW would look like if Victoria Park and Waterloo Park were golf courses?
I doubt if turning golf courses into parks is on anyone's agenda but perhaps it is something we can think about.