Ecological Values of Golf Courses

I can’t find anything positive about golf fields, even in urban setting it’s better to plant some flowers here and there between builduings than wasting all that area (forcing builduings to be built further). If the game demanded a growing field that would be moved, but made of different plants, maybe it’d be different, but the pristine look it needs is not what wildlife can prefer. I also know how some people wanted to buy part of nature reserve for golf, on the sea cost with huge winds, so these people also are ready to destroy unique places to built something that sounds awful.