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Yes but also it takes up so much room for so few people to exclusively enjoy. I'm not sure that $17 and dumpster diving for clubs can be considered typical for your average golf Enjoyer, though I know there are more and less expensive ways to do everything. They're also often plopped in urban areas forcing you to walk all the way around to get to the other side (don't you dare walk in the special sport field)((and God help me if you touch my special sport grass)).
Speaking of the grass it's wildly bad for the planet. The runoff, as you mentioned, is part of it, but the water consumption from having a nice green in the summer in the warm places people like to stand on a grass field, and the gas from the daily lawn mowing is also a factor. (grass and associated pest/weed killers are also a nightmare from an ecological perspective)
It's also not a particularly fun sport for many people. I appreciate some people like it, but surely a nice park and a beer is something that can be done a little more fun with far fewer negative externalities.
In all honesty, I have a really hard time understanding the opposite view. Why someone would go stand in a fenced in hot field, grass, gas, and fertilizer odors on the breeze, and spend the whole day just smacking a plastic ball around instead of going for a jog in a park, or swim/float in a lake/river, or go on a hike, or play soccer. Add on top of that the knowledge that what you're doing is participating in a harmful activity, as discussed above, and I just don't see how the fun can possibly outweigh all that. My gut reaction is that to play golf you either have to be purposefully or accidentally ignorant, however incorrect that may be.
Capitalism may play a part in making the sport suck, but you can't play golf without a big field of the largest cultivated crop in the US near where people live, and that's all it takes for me to dislike it.