golf courses in Greece

After reading a recent article bemoaning the "Byzantine process" for investors to build golf courses in Greece see here , I just couldn't let it pass without comment.
While these (not so) benevolent investors bitch and moan about essentially their frustration in not being able to make more money, have we taken a moment to think about how inappropriate and out of place golf course resorts are to the Greek environment, and indeed our way of life?
It's stated as a criticism that there's only 6 major golf courses in Greece, yet I consider that a POSITIVE. I can think of nothing worse than to rape the fertile Mediterranean Greek soil with a bulldozer, and to then drop in a sand bunker, there's just something about the game of golf that is anathema to Greece. What business does this quaint Scottish game of the lowlands have doing in Greece? It may be just fine in the lush green fields of Scotland, but we're not exactly drowning in fresh water in Greece. And how much real estate are we taking up to build these monstrosities? In a land of not exactly set in stone land ownership titles, you can't help but wonder how many people will be potentially swindled out of their "implied" land by cashed up legally savvy developers?
But these resorts apparently have "economic benefits" for the country? But for whom exactly? It's all in the detail of the tax arrangements that politicians sign the developers up to, and how much of this "revenue" trickles down to the wider community is very debatable.
Sorry, but I'm just very suspicious of these "exclusive" resorts in their gated little communities in a place like Greece, remember golf was a game that you couldn't even play at the better clubs if you were black not that many years ago.
If you want to see golf in the Mediterranean, go to Spain me thinks, they sold out years ago. Keep these awful resorts out of my beautiful Messinia!