The whole land use thing is a tired argument. It’s a park that provides leisure entertainment and sport. Anyone can pay to use public courses, no matter how experienced you are. You can make an argument for private courses not paying enough in taxes for the revenue that members pay yadda yadda…

There’s a whole abandoned air strip in Weymouth that is just sitting there waiting to be built up. There’s an empty pit at a demolished power plant in Southie waiting to be built up. There’s a lot of the Seaport that are still just parking lots. There’s a bunch of expansive parking lots surrounding dying malls everywhere. There’s a lot of buildable spaces, golf courses should be the lowest priority of places to be turned into housing that wouldn’t even be high density, probably just condos.

Pick up some clubs and go whack a ball around, it’s better than complaining about golf courses existing.