Southern California golf courses are bracing for brown fairways as new water restrictions have gone into effect due to California's drought emergency.
"Certainly there's going to be some brown out there," said Brandon Fox, the PGA director of golf for the Rose Bowl Stadium."Brown is the new green. We said that a couple years ago."
According to Pasadena Water and Power, golf courses are required to either cut their water usage by 15% or find alternate ways to make up that difference. Water use is measured in what is called acre feet. One acre foot is the equivalent of a football field filled with water, one-foot deep. Kightlinger says that's enough water for three average households for a year, but just a fraction of what a golf course uses.According to the California Department of Water Resources, golf courses fall in a category responsible for using 9% of all the state's water.
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