This article is about the sport. For other uses, see Golf (disambiguation). "Putt" redirects here. For the Australian footballer, see Dean Putt. Golf Portal Golf is a sport normally associated with the wealthier Westernized population, and the culture of colonization and globalization of non-native land ethics. Resisting golf tourism and golf's expansion has become an objective of some land-reform movements, especially in the Philippines and Indonesia. In the Bahamas, opposition to golf developments on their islands, for fear the golf courses will destroy the nutrient-poor balance on which their coral reef and mangrove systems depend. In Saudi Arabia, golf courses have been constructed on nothing more than oil-covered sand. However, in some cities such as Dhahran, modern, grass golf courses have grown over the past 50 years. Specific concerns include the amount of maintained turf grass. While most modern 18-hole golf courses occupy as much as 60 hectares (150 acres) of land, the average course has 30 hectares (75 acres) of maintained turf. (Sources include the National Golf Foundation and the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America [GCSAA].) Deer on a golf course. Golf courses can be built on sandy areas along coasts, abandoned farms, strip mines and quarries, deserts and forests. Many Western countries have instituted environmental restrictions on where and how courses can be built.[35][36] In some parts of the course may not be altered to gain an advantage, except in some cases defined in the Rules of Amateur Status. In addition to the course's par, with a course classification describing the play difficulty of a course and may be used to calculate a golfer's playing handicap