Mainstreet Radio’s Leif Enger reports on digitally-mapped, electronically monitored, pushbutton GPS golf. The latest lure for the golf-obsessed is satellite technology, global positioning to be exact. But at least one golf purist is not impressed.
Golf courses are proliferating around Minnesota. There are now at least 450 statewide; 70 new courses have opened in the past five years alone. Such growth begets an inevitable battle for patrons, with courses promoting low fees, or natural beauty, or nearby attractions.