With its dozens of hectares of lawns delicious in water and its image of “rich sport”, golf is undoubtedly the main discipline in the collimator of environmental activists. Undoubtedly because they are more popular or more confidential, it is according to criticism is often less virulent with regard to football, rugby, horse racing or grass hockey, which nonetheless share the same problems.
Because if a golf of nine holes consumes an average of 25,000 m3 of water per year, a racetrack like that of Chantilly can exceed 43,000 m3 over a particularly dry year like 2023. The watering of an approved football field requires on average 14,336 m3 per year, according to the National Football League.
