Great … something else for Charles Barkley to hit. A golf course in Canfield, Ohio, is going green and helping to “save the environment” by maintaining their courses entirely with goats. And in case you’ve never seen a goat driving a John Deere riding mower, I can tell you they’re very good.
Of course the goats will actually eat the grass, keeping the course manicured and tidy as only goats can. And the restrooms — spotless. It all sounds like a scheme that Carl Spackler would dream up, but owners of the Kensington Golf Course say that when they factor in fuel, labor, and equipment maintenance, the goats are saving them thousands of dollars.
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“What we use the goats for is to … eat all the foliage down so that we’re not in there with weed eaters and gas powered motors, to basically reduce our carbon footprint on the environment,” said Sean Novotny, course superintendent.
Installing a solar panel, are you? The Kensington Golf Course goats laugh at your feeble attempts at going green.
(The Naval Academy approves)
4:43 am on November 2nd, 2009
Outstanding !!!
One of my favorite courses, tthe MT. Angel Course, near Salem, OR, had some nasty Blackberry bushes on steep hillside constantly encroaching onto the #6 Teebox. One of the Members thetered a really sweet little Goat named Bogey, to nibble down these bushes….Now as #6 is right by the Clubhouse, while waiting for this difficult Par 3 to clear, everyone would send one or two into the Clubhouse for some Hot Dogs, Chips, and a six-pack…
The admonition would always be, “Don’t forget to bring a beer and a Hot Dog for Dear Little Bogey”. (There was a bowl kept near his tether that many poured beer into) and pieces of Hot Dogs, Pizza, and chips and such were left by many playing #6…
One of my fondest memories of a wonderful Club owned by the late Jim Hynds, Sr, a Chick Evans Scholar at Univ. of Washington.
Willybee
5:17 am on November 2nd, 2009
Oh, and BTW, as “Caddy Shack” is still one of my Top Five Favorite Movies of all Time, I believe that the Assistant Greenskeeper that was played hilariously by Bill Murray, was Carl Spangler.
Hey Gopher….
Willybee