North Las Vegas golf course using GPS to tear out untrodden turf
(World News Science)

Aliante Golf Club is the latest Las Vegas Valley course to tear out turf and cut its water use with the help of some space-age technology. About six months ago, staff members from the Southern Nevada Water Authority issued GPS tracking units to golfers at the city-owned course in North Las Vegas to help identify areas that don’t see any cart traffic or play. “They were here for several days. They did a lot of tracking, hundreds of rounds,” said golf course general manager Bill Rowden. “It just showed areas that golf carts were really not going to.” That data is now being used to guide the first big turf conversion project at the 18-hole course. Almost 129,000...