Byline: Rob Schultz

It's a rite of spring.

The grass turns green, leaves grow on trees, flowers bloom ... and some nitwit screams that golf courses are killing us all.

Or, at least golf courses are killing the superintendents who tend to them, or the children who live near them, or those cute baby robins who nest in trees located within 500 blocks of one of them.

True story: A woman walked out of her home and immediately sneezed. Later, she learned a nearby golf course was spraying a fungicide that day. So she automatically assumed that the fungicide made her sneeze and was somehow killing her and her children. She called city officials and demanded that they ...