I remember this summer, there was a drought in the southern part of my country. Water for gardens was rationed, everything dry. The gold court had sprinklers running all evening and morning long. F**k golf, so much space wasted for old farts playing with sticks and balls instead of letting children, dogs, students and whoever else hang around the fields.

Why are there pictures of pigs in this article? Javelinas look VERY different from pigs. And for those who don't know javelinas, look them up, they're super cute! GettyImage...9da1d1.jpg

Make it a feature. "If you are as good a golfer as you think you are, you should be able to make it through the Javelina rough."

In an ideal world, such vast lands shouldn't be used for an entitled group to play high-society sports.. But, in case of golf, these are commercial, so glad to see nature getting back what should be just nature, not deforestated and modified pieces of land, that drive away all animals.

we have golf courses in africa. Which mostly is in a state of drought. It's a grotesque waste of land and water.

This isn't an issue of javalinas on a golf course, it is a problem of people insisting on playing golf where the javalinas forrest/lives. The pigs were there first, and it is their land you are using for your sport. Accept it, and pay for the repairs/mantainance, or go somewhere else. There is also a golfclub placed in a deerpark near where I live, and when you do that, a basic condition is that you'd have to accept deertracks in the green, or the occotional flock of deers on the field. You are a guest in their home, it is not the other way round. So if you don't like it, move buddy.

Lawns are unnatural, continuing maintenance is par for the course.

WTF is that picture. Javelinas do not look like that. Those are regular pigs. I don't think golf is automatically bad, but the golf courses in Arizona are kind of ridiculous. I think it's a fine hobby in states with more water.

Yeah close down the golf course and let it go back to nature. golf courses are freaking stupid wastes of space. Hitting a little stupid ball while you get drunk sounds like a great use of land...

I've played golf and enjoy it, but I suck so maybe not the best to make this comparison. That being said I don't notice much difference between the virtual driving range and the real one. I think we're close to the point we can stimulate it almost exactly without needing to waste the space

As an arizonan, I too support them. Golf courses are hurting our environment and these little fellas were just sent by Mother Nature to remind us of what we're doing to the world. (Side note: my school mascot is a javelina XD)

I am from AZ. Why is there not a single picture of an actual javelina. They are unrelated to pigs, Cannot interbreed and are not even native to Arizona. They have been migrating north over the last two centuries. Once again you are misrepresenting the case.

Team Javelinas.

Morocco had/has (don’t know when) a golf-mad king, who had courses made everywhere. Just sickening, the waste of natural resources, the effect on the flora and fauna, and the absolute “divine privilege” behind these actions.

Honestly this stuff just makes me sad. In my opinion, golf courses are giant wastes of money, resources, and water especially since they are used primarily by wealthy, older men. If we are going to use that much water on anything at all, it should be on something everyone uses and is beneficial towards us like gardens instead of using water in drought ridden states to make sure a empty field remains green for some guy to hit balls around in it, especially if is taking habitat away from wildlife. (Sorry if anyone found this offensive, this is just an opinion, if you enjoy golf courses then don’t read this)

Unfortunately, pigs of all species destroy wetlands too. We are restoring a wetland and pigs are an issue. I couldn't care less about golf courses.

Indeed my heart is bleeding for the poor poor golfers. Maybe a certain greenskeeper with lots of experience with gophers can help ...