Pretty weak article, IMHO. I actually want that three minutes of my life back, please.
REAL golf is golf as Old Tom Morris played it back in the day.
You just can't take turf grass out of the equation and call it golf. Sorry, sand greens and mats are not even close.
It undermines the rules of the game, to boot. Golf is not about lifting, cleaning, fluffying and placing your lie.
To my mind, a green movement in golf course architecture will pertain to lessening water usage, but never outright eliminating turf grass.
And this is already being done as people like Dave Wilbur educate the masses on just exactly what turf grass needs and what different strains can survive with less water.
Somewhere along the evolutionary chain, we golfers fell in love with lush spongy green grass. Well, that era is over, it's back to the roots we must go where golf courses are built in sensible places (I.E. NOT the desert) using logical materials (grass which does not need a lot of water) and constructed with utmost care to the existing environment. (No more rape it, shape it and grass it.)
Talk along these lines is salient to the topic of golf and the environment, this woman's article is fodder.