Mr. Pulled Pork Sandwich,
I was out there yesterday, looking at some of the most natural GREAT golfing ground one could ever imagine. It's there, unfortuantely because the bastards didn't know how to create, and did nothing except build mammoth gate-guarded housing developments with some of the most mundane golf, good money could ever be wasted on.
The Bureau of Land Management decided the best dunes in the desert (The Coachella Valley Nature Preserve) was best to be protected, and I can't blame them. Horray, thankfully, in this case nature was preserved. We win. Fortunately it is land that can be looked upon in the future--after the next ice age wipes everything out--as proof of what once existed here and how this age got it all so screwed up in a reasonble blink of an eye.
The saddest part of all-this wonderful land perfectly suited for golf with an aquifer more then attiquite enough to feed the 200+ golf courses that exist there, (a count that is always growing year after year) once contained a landscape so perfect for golf--in terms of creating naturally strategic golf that could have driven the Sport into a stratosphere higher then we could ever dream of--it was that good.....
This is pretty much all that is left--the last look at what was once the Coachella Valley:
