View data about all of the state’s 114 golf courses in an interactive map and spreadsheet.
initially required every golf course in the state to meter water use, report it to the state and publish it on the course’s website. Some claimed the proposal unfairly targeted golf courses and would make them look bad. The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Doug Welton, disagrees.
“The public is smart enough to figure out and make good determinations for themselves,” Welton said, “especially if we give them good data.” We also collected information on each golf course’s acreage and ownership via county records and parcel maps. Here’s what we found.Many golf courses in Utah simply don’t meter or track water use.
Some courses included water consumed in the clubhouses and restrooms, while others only reported outdoor irrigation. Indoor use is a small fraction of what’s used outdoors, but it goes to show how useful a uniform tracking and reporting system could be.All said, Utah’s golf courses soaked up about 23,600 acre-feet in 2022 and 25,400 acre-feet in 2021. Those figures don’t include the roughly 25% of courses that did not have or did not share their data.
Hubbard Golf Course at Hill Air Force Base is owned by the United States government. It used 334 acre-feet last year to water 144 acres.Last year saw little rain, leaving turf across the state parched. Even in those conditions, however, about 40 golf courses cut their water consumption compared to 2021.
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