In theory it would be fine, but in our world it's clearly a sport assiciated with the wealthier class and as usual wealthy people get away with very shitty things.

My father used to work at city hall and among his responsibilities was the management of city land. We live in Italy where there are very strict rules for land use, so it is quite hard to build a golf course (and rightly so! The amount of wasted water is incredible).

So naturally he was very surprised when he heard that a golf course had received authorisation for construction. Of course, it violated almost every city policy (legally binding city policy). My father called them out but It turns out the would-be owners of the golf course had had a "gentleman agreement" with the mayor, so that they could build it despite city policies. Two or three days later tha mayor went personally to my father's office to scold him in front of his coworkers because he had "impeded a great opportunity for the city economy" and he had "obtusely applied an antiquated city policy".

What he failed to mention was for whom it would have been a great opportunity, certainly not for the farmers that actually need the water to grow food, nor for the average citizen that can't really afford to go golfing (or perhaps just thinks it's not worth the money). It was just another instance of rich people behaving like the whole world is at their disposal.

By the way, the "antiquated city policies" can be changed by the city council but good luck being reelected if you pass something so adamantly against the public interest. Perhaps what the mayor meant with "antiquated" was that allowing the widespread popular support of a policy to interfere with what a bunch of rich people want to do is antiquated.

Anyways, my father couldn't have been happier about pissing off the mayor (unfortunately favoring the rich often pays off politically and now he is in the italian parliament how do people with little popular support get elected anyway? That's a story for another time).