Animal damage on the golfcourse

L

Laka

Head Pro
Joined
Oct 12, 2013
Messages
382
Location
Stockholm Sweden
Visit site
we have problems with wild boars digging up fairways and on the areas around the greens. it started 2 years back on the autumn, not so much then. the damage has increased since then and when playing yesterday, we noticed they had been digging on several holes. they have tried to shoot them during nighs, but its difficult because the sniper has to be sure that the boar isnt a female with "kids". so i heard they only had shoot 3 boars this season, The solution now seems to put up electrial fence around the course. Its an cost for the club and it will need repair, maintance over time.

Is there severe problems with animals making severe damage on your courses
 
We had a badger last autumn rip up a lot of areas but mainly in the rough

Only other issues are with moles
 
Badgers are ripping 2 of out tee boxes to shreds - and there's nothing that can be done about them.
I suggested ringing Whipsnade Zoo and asking for a load of Tiger poo so they can make a spary out of it and ring the course with it....
 
We had to have an ostrich removed, and had a particularly tricky issue with anteaters...




OK, OK, it is Moles & Geese but When the OP opens up with Wild Boar I didn't think they were exotic enough :D
 
Deer keep running in our fairway bunkers and they don't use the rakes.:)

We did have a rabbit problem a few years back, but getting rid of a lot of gorse sorted that out. The odd mole and badger, but the biggest pain are the crows which pull up the replaced divots.:angry:
 
Apart from rabbit scrapings and foxes leaving their doings in the middle of fairways we don't really suffer. Some years the crows have been known to make holes in the greens as they dig out the leather-jackets.
 
Three weeks ago our course was rock hard and the only soft areas were the watered greens. A badger(s) then decided it was easier to dig in the softer earth and caused severe damage to four greens in one area of the course. Luckily, most of the damage was around the edges of the greens but it still looks a real mess.
 
Our course has at various times suffered from damage by badgers and horses. The latter left a lot of hoof marks on some of the greens, and as they are not 'burrowing animals' we couldn't get relief from them! :angry:
 
Lots of footprints in the bunkers if you are out for an early round,deer i think, plus usual badgers and rabbits.
 
Not sure it's done much damage. Walking the dogs tonight across a local course and saw a Goshawk kill a pigeon land on the 9 th green with it pluck it and eat the breasts . Blood and feathers everywhere. One of my German pointers went to investigate and it flew off. 5 mins later it was being finished of by some crows.
 
Huge amount of badger damage. I really don't get why they are protected, they are hardly rare, or endangered. They are just another pest.
 
delc said:
Our course has at various times suffered from damage by badgers and horses. The latter left a lot of hoof marks on some of the greens, and as they are not 'burrowing animals' we couldn't get relief from them! :angry:
Click to expand...


We have had damage from cattle, horses, rabbits, sheep, fox's, badgers and vandals there animals too. Any damage to greens whether from hoof prints or not is always marked as GUR.
 
Badgers (protected) and Rabbits are the main damage makers in UK. Canada Geese certainly **** everywhere they go, as do Swans, but that's pretty 'cosmetic' except on Greens.

Les Bordes, an old hunting park anyway, enclosed the entire area with a Sanglier/Boar-proof fence and eliminated them - by hunting/trapping.. Plenty of Deer left that create occasional, and manageable, hoof-prints on greens and in sand.
 
I played Whipsnade a earlier this year and you hear some odd animal sounds around there... Lions, tigers and bears...
 
We get macaque monkeys digging in the bunkers looking for burrowing land crabs on one of the courses but biggest issue is the crabs themselves and the mongooses all making holes at the edge of fairways
 
Slab said:
We get macaque monkeys digging in the bunkers looking for burrowing land crabs on one of the courses but biggest issue is the crabs themselves and the mongooses all making holes at the edge of fairways
Click to expand...

Oh to situated to allow that comment to be made! :rofl:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Junior
The winter thaw . . . . .
Replies
5
Views
1K
sona
sona
Dodger
The things we do not see......is this why Casey has played crap this year?
Replies
8
Views
7K
MashieNiblick
MashieNiblick
Top