*** What Food Do You Eat On A Day At Golf ***

Sorry herb, but litter is litter regardless of whether it degrades or not. (I suspect you'd not be too happy if your neighbour took to chucking his banana skins into your garden?)

And its a mistake to think that the places into which you chuck the apples etc actually need, or would benefit from, composting. Links land for example is a low nutrient derived ecosystem - chucking down high nutrient stuff won't help it. Highly ornamental courses, with flowering shrubs etc may well benefit by regular composting - but even then I doubt Augusta would be right happy with 'nanas and apple cores lying about in the bushes.
 
Sorry herb, but litter is litter regardless of whether it degrades or not. (I suspect you'd not be too happy if your neighbour took to chucking his banana skins into your garden?)

And its a mistake to think that the places into which you chuck the apples etc actually need, or would benefit from, composting. Links land for example is a low nutrient derived ecosystem - chucking down high nutrient stuff won't help it. Highly ornamental courses, with flowering shrubs etc may well benefit by regular composting - but even then I doubt Augusta would be right happy with 'nanas and apple cores lying about in the bushes.
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Its funny how a harmless banana skin ( and it is harmless) can raise such decent from people.

Should I list all the things used on golf courses including pesticides and other growth chemicals and genetically manipulated seeds, perhaps not, as this is not litter :D Do you know what is dropped on golf courses by wildlife that is part and parcel of natures way?
Migrating birds can deposit remnants of their intake from a thousand miles away which dispells the earlier indigenous comment. Many composts used around some, if not all golf courses and contain all sorts of fruits,veg,fibres and god knows what (some including S***)in their creation, and you will find this sort of thing used even at agusta. I think what most people want is the hidden facade of life. Regarding Links courses, if you believe that Apples and banana skins have not been deposited in abundance over the years on these courses by spectators alone, you would have to be living in a coccoon of mis-information. One thing Links courses have an abundance of is salt, maybe thats why we see so many crisp packets on some. :)

What you need to consider is volume as well as what is deposited. I have never suggested dropping banana skins on fairways or greens as there are too many chemicals on a lot of courses for them to do any good :p, I specified where they should be disposed and as you may well know there are few Links courses with trees, and natural plant growth liken to those inland.

As for the comment about a neighbour chucking their bananas in my garden, it would depend where they threw them, if it were under the hedges or trees or on my compost heap I wouldnt give a stuff, in fact I would be grateful, as I know their value.

Regarding the comment about being mistaken??? Im not, because I dont chuck them on links courses as there is nothing growing on most Links courses that would benefit, I know this, so for you to use a non starter argument to counter the fact that it does banefit some land shows the clutching at straws attitude.

If people on here have a litter issue and it seems there are quite a few, would you tell me how much Litter you collect and deposit in bins every time you play? I usually come back with a good handful almost every time I play and on ANY course, so I assume the anti bannana brigade are conscientious enough to have the same in their bags or pockets each round, and I do mean every round (mostly bananas I would assume?) :rolleyes: If its litter why hasnt anyone told everyone on here how often they have picked this litter up and put it in the bin?

There is a word for this! ;)

Before anyone suggests they dont have litter on their courses, think again or see an optician :D
 
I avoid cooked breakys before a serious game.

I have a "slow-release" type cereal/porridge/muesli followed by toast and some juice. I tend to have a de-caf coffee and then something strong just before my game.

On the course, plenty of fluids, a banana and/or some choccy. I mostly have a caffeine drink for early on the back 9.

Folks used to cooked breakfast probably do best to stick with it.....for me, it makes me sluggish......don't know why.
 
What ever you take onto the golf course, you take away with you, or put in the bin. Chucking stuff in the bushes is littering. You cannot justify it. Be it fag ends, banana skins or drink bottles, there is no difference.
 
Fag ends and beer tins/bottles are inexcusable. There is no need to drink alcohol when playing golf, you wouldnt run down the wing of a football pitch with a magners in your hand or drop ciggies on the wicket of a cricket pitch would you? If you need to carry drink on a course, I think there is either a problem budding or worse, in full bloom.
Banana skins are different, as long as they are put somewhere out of view they will turn brown and degrade within days. They grew on trees so anything with natural waste is fine in my book, be it skins, cores or pips.
 
Banana skins are different, as long as they are put somewhere out of view they will turn brown and degrade within days.
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More like a month plus....

Why is it 'okay' for people to chuck fag butts whereever they like - should they take them home with them or put them in a bin? I hate seeing them all over the place not just on a golf course...

And don't you just love following our fat friends round the course with their cigars....
 
finding Cigarette butts on the course infuriates me. I hate smoking at the best of times and I find the practice of throwing them down on the fairway ignorant and despicable. Finding them in the rough is almost as annoying as well.
 
Thought I would enter this apple core and bananas debate. I am also of the opinion that you take it home and put it in the bin or into a bin on the golf course with a lid on it.

Have you noticed the amout of seeguls now moving "inland" well thats due to man and his waste that he deposits all over the place, this is intoducing new scavengers around Britain into habitats that these creatures wouldnt have dreamed of living in the the not to distant past.

I'm not saying this is caused by golfers alone however it does not help the situation. I am as guilty as most for throwing away an apple core here and there but I wont dispose of orange peel or banana skins as these take months to break down.
 
I don't get the whole fag butt thing.
I enjoy a smoke on the course and NEVER "stamp out and leave" on the fairways. My rollies are bio-degradable but even with this in mind, they go in the bin or in the heavy cabbage.

It is rare to see any litter on my course, but there are often orange butt ends (which probably don't degrade) around tees or through greens. Shame.
 
It would be nice to get a day at golf to find out what I could eat?

Damn weather again - everywhere's closed or should be....
 
Thought I would enter this apple core and bananas debate. I am also of the opinion that you take it home and put it in the bin or into a bin on the golf course with a lid on it.

Have you noticed the amout of seeguls now moving "inland" well thats due to man and his waste that he deposits all over the place, this is intoducing new scavengers around Britain into habitats that these creatures wouldnt have dreamed of living in the the not to distant past.

I'm not saying this is caused by golfers alone however it does not help the situation. I am as guilty as most for throwing away an apple core here and there but I wont dispose of orange peel or banana skins as these take months to break down.
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Some truth in what you say and those who live in city areas close to the sea, may well see a few more seaguls than normal, but they have always ventured inland to scavenge whatever they can, nothing new there when its lousy weather at sea,I live close enough to the sea but rarely see seaguls or other scavengers of this type,I bet you have all played on courses with areas covered in duck/goose or swan sh**(much more pleasent than a browning banana skin under a tree :D

When leaves fall off the trees and go brown very quickly then take months to slowly deteriorate, are they unsightly too? I ask this because I dont see the difference in image between banana skin going brown and leaves going brown, actually hard to see bananas when thats going on.

The more I read on this subject the more I clearly see little constructive or scientific argument against banana skins uner the trees or in the bushes, but just an awful lot of pet peeves no better or worse than those peeved by who left the toothpaste lid open! :D
 
Sorry Herb. you are a litterer. Try throwing a banana skin out of your car window in front of a policeman, and see what he says. Loads of stuff biodegrades, but it is still litter. My council tells me I can put pizza boxes in my green recycling bin, but that doesn't mean I can chuck them under a tree on the golf course. The golf course should be left in the state you found it, or better.

Note, at one of our Kent meets I was accused of being a wombble, given the amount of litter I picked up.
 
Well before the round, Ive usually had breakfast and possibly lunch as I feel too bad in a morning usually.

During the round I have banana's or apple as you can chuck your rubbish with complete impunity from condemnation and its good for the plants. With this I drink water or on some occasions I take a small flask of coffee if its really cold.

Then I either go home or have something substancial in the clubhouse.

If I am well enough to make an early start in a comp its bacon sandwiches all the way.
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Apple cores I can cope with but banana skins are for the bin - I hate when you come across one that's all brown and horrible....
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agree - and it will be around for quite a while - a banana skin needs 1-3 years before it is biodegraded
 
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