Any sauce on what percent of golf courses nationwide currently use recycled water in a closed system?

What little I have read about it says that more golf courses would use this system, but that it’s expensive to set up. The number that I saw was 13% of golf courses use a system like you’re describing.

But I personally don’t know a lot about golf or being a greenskeeper, so I leave it up to the experts, like Carl Speckler:

“This is a hybrid. This is a cross, ah, of Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California Sensemilia. The amazing stuff about this is, that you can play 36 holes on it in the afternoon, take it home and just get stoned to the bejeezus-belt that night on this stuff.”

I’ve been looking to play a course like this.

The rich are the only ones who golf?

And then what happens when it rains, oh wise one?

Draining an aquifer faster than it is being replenished is an issue in some areas, but still doesn't amount to "wasting" water. And the only consequence will be the death of the people who relied on that over-used aquifer, and the subsidence of their land.

Water cannot be wasted. By your brilliant theory all the fresh water would be long-gone forever into the oceans, never to evaporate again.

We should do what we can to heat the globe so the oceans evaporate faster.

(I was 100% joking when I started the sentence, then dropped to about 99.7 by the time I had finished.)

In some places, sure. Most water in the US is taken directly from lakes or rivers.

The water in the ocean evaporates, converts to clouds, rains on the land, seeps into the ground and becomes well water all over again.

There is no waste. Only time.