Badgers.

[Imurg]

They're ripping our course to shreds.
Fortunately they haven't gone onto the tees, greens or fairways - they're just on the fringe of some fairways
If your ball hits the damage you lose many yards of run and it's a minor plus that you can drop from it..
It's going to take a long time to fix the damage....
Love Badgers but I wish they'd bugger off.......

Anyone else suffering.?

 

[AAC]

Our Badgers (seniors) aren't quite as bad but they are poor at repairing pitch marks.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Is the club accepting that they are part of nature or is the plan to tackle them? If so, what do you do?

 

[Imurg]

Is the club accepting that they are part of nature or is the plan to tackle them? If so, what do you do?

Short of buying a cow and giving it TB I'm not sure there's anything you can do...
They're after the grubs and bugs and you can't use insecticides, they're protected so there's a limit to what action you can take.
We have decent fencing but if a badger wants to go somewhere it goes.....

 

[Slime]

Short of buying a cow and giving it TB I'm not sure there's anything you can do...
They're after the grubs and bugs and you can't use insecticides, they're protected so there's a limit to what action you can take.
We have decent fencing but if a badger wants to go somewhere it goes.....

Can't you buy a cow that already has TB and blame it on your badgers?

 

[Mel Smooth]

I played a course a few months back that had badgers, area was cordoned off - you weren't allowed to go in to look for balls, it was overgrown and there was some fallen trees that might well pose a safety risk.
The green adjacent to their habitat was fenced off to prevent them from damaging it.

 

[Imurg]

Can't you buy a cow that already has TB and blame it on your badgers?

I shall lobby the Committee

 

[Crow]

We had trouble in the summer dry spell when the only soft ground where they could find worms etc was around the watered tees.

Lots of badger scraping near them and they completely destroyed one tee.

It seems to have stopped now that everywhere is wet again although an adjacent field looks like it's been ploughed!

 

[r0wly86]

A lot of farmers in the SW will kill the badgers, then dump the bodies on the A303 to make it look like roadkill

 

[Newtonuti]

I've heard they like mashed potato if you need to set traps?

 

[jim8flog]

A lot of farmers in the SW will kill the badgers, then dump the bodies on the A303 to make it look like roadkill

There is one particular hill I go up most days with steep banks either side with farmers fields at the top, seeing a dead badger on the road on that hill is quite common.

 

[need_my_wedge]

We've had them this year too, not as bad as previous years, but they've still ripped a few parts up. They seem to crop up in 3 or 4 year cycles.

Belle Dune seem to get them really bad... check this out from when I was there in September

Badger damage at Belle Dune

 

[KenL]

A lot of farmers in the SW will kill the badgers, then dump the bodies on the A303 to make it look like roadkill

Disgusting behaviour.
The witch hunt against badgers is a disgrace in my book. Vaccinate the cows against TB and job done.
I don't think an irrefutable link that badgers are the cause of TB at all.

 

[need_my_wedge]

I've heard they like mashed potato if you need to set traps?

I'll counter that

 

[r0wly86]

Disgusting behaviour.
The witch hunt against badgers is a disgrace in my book. Vaccinate the cows against TB and job done.
I don't think an irrefutable link that badgers are the cause of TB at all.

Farmers are like that, I know some that kill Buzzards and all sorts of wildlife to "protect" their farm.

However I think vaccinating all cows would be prohibitively expensive. Also as with foot and mouth disease, being vaccinated doesn't prevent a cow from being a carrier so no country that did not also vaccinate against TB would not buy any cows from the UK at risk of it spreading across their herds

 

[patricks148]

A lot of farmers in the SW will kill the badgers, then dump the bodies on the A303 to make it look like roadkill

Rumour has it that happens up here in a few places. Between Inverness and Nairn there are always dead badgers by the roadside, even bits that don't have any trees or habitat for hundreds of yards. I did hear the SSPCA and Nature Scot had taken some of the bodies, but their findings havnt been made public.

 

[Dando]

Austin Lodge in Kent had a badger problem and they ended up shutting the course as they couldn't keep up with the damage and the spoon whittlers say they can't be culled

 

[srixon 1]

I'll counter that

I really wish I hadn’t just watched that. ??????????????????????????

 

[GG26]

We have badgers and they have mainly ripped up a number of the tee boxes. We now have lights that are triggered by motion sensors on the tees which seems to keep them away.

 

[CliveW]

Farmers are like that, I know some that kill Buzzards and all sorts of wildlife to "protect" their farm.

No we aren't! A very small minority might be, but don't tar us all with the same brush!