Golf courses use a minuscule fraction of California's total water supply. Many of them are now irrigated by gray water.

The major fresh water use is mostly agriculture. We need to eat, but on the other hand a lot of that water ends up getting used to grow alfalfa for export to Saudi Arabia: profitable for certain farmers, not great for the rest of us.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/in-drought-stricken-ar...