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Thread: Diving and Golf?

 


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    Diving and Golf?

    Hi peeps!

    I'm in college and graduating in May. Folks are coming to visit me.. Just wondering where, in Florida, can I get good diving AND good golf? Parents like to golf, where i wanna dive! I've never been to Florida, and was thinking it's nice to dive there b4 I return home for good...

    Thanks!

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    Just understand that most golf clubs will corrode and rust after salt water exposure.

    Flippers will not leave divots on sand traps, so that's a plus.

    P.S.- Don't "go home". Stay in Florida. Don't be an idiot.

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    west palm beach

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    Just about anywhere in Palm Beach County.

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    Palm Beach would be one of the best reccomendations i could give you. You have come of the best golf courses and dive ops. I would reccomend Oceans Quest Scuba they have a website at oceanquestscuba.com. I would also reccomend Okeeheelee Golf course its beautiful but its has alot of water.

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    Pompano Beach. That area has premium courses, and an excellent city-owned public course for those who want to have fun for less. Jupiter has plenty of both, but I have not played golf there. Tiger Woods moved to Jupiter, as he dives when he isn't making a living with golf.

    Golf and diving are natural partners, as a lot of places have both. And... you can golf on the 24 hour waiting period before flying.

    Congratulaations on getting that degree.

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    Well, the run off from the golf courses screws up the environment which is not good for the diving. Ban golf!
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    Hey, Walter. How about a golf course that is fertilized and watered by the residual products of a wastewater treatment plant? We had that at our city-owned course in North Carolina. It kept that stuff out of the river and therefore the ocean (near Cape Hatteras). Our golf course was a key part of a model wastewater system.

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