Badgers.

[r0wly86]

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

The ones I know have no qualms doing what they want (within reason) on their land if they believe it will help them

 

[Voyager EMH]

Our badgers put in a complaint about golfers urinating against their favourite trees.

 

[Bratty]

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.?

Yeah, @Badger rarely finds fairways or greens. ?

 

[KenL]

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

And rightly so, wildlife is precious, golf isn't.

 

[Newtonuti]

I'll counter that

That's made my day I used to love the original Weebl video when I was at school haha

 

[Smiffy]

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 in 4 year cycles.

It's not the Badger World Cup is it???

 

[Newtonuti]

It's not the Badger World Cup is it???

Probably play better then England are about to!

 

[Voyager EMH]

Remember Harry Hill and Gareth Southgate Badger?

 

[Smiffy]

Probably play better then England are about to!

Yep. England won't rip it up...

 

[Asian Dawn]

This whole badger problem seems pretty black and white to me.

 

[Imurg]

They're still at it....the course looks like a battle scene....especially the front 9. Seems they don't like crossing the road...
Fortunately the little bleeders haven't found their way onto the greens and, for the most part, have stayed off the fairways - one or 2 minor incursions though.
It's going tomtake a lot of work and a couple of years for it all to recover...
I'll try and remember to get some pics next time I'm up there...

 

[Whereditgo]

Badgers have decimated our 6th fairway, the first half of a long par 5 is like a ploughed field. The greens staff have begun levelling and re-turfing areas, but it will take long while to get sorted and thats assuming the badgers don't dig up the freshly laid turf.

 

[Imurg]

Badgers have decimated our 6th fairway, the first half of a long par 5 is like a ploughed field. The greens staff have begun levelling and re-turfing areas, but it will take long while to get sorted and thats assuming the badgers don't dig up the freshly laid turf.

Thats why our Greenies are leaving it...they run the Rough mower over it now and then to level it off but there's no point trying to fix it until the badgers have finished their Landscape Gardening course...

 

[Whereditgo]

Thats why our Greenies are leaving it...they run the Rough mower over it now and then to level it off but there's no point trying to fix it until the badgers have finished their Landscape Gardening course...

Trouble is the 6th is just about unplayable at the moment and a long walk from 5th green to 7th tee box. At least they haven't been on any of the greens yet.

 

[Jigger]

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.....

At risk of being banned from the forum, you could get your members to urinate where they have been. Not sure if an urban myth but recall reading many years ago about a course down south that promoted this to stop badgers digging up a green. They hate the amonia smell apparently.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

At risk of being banned from the forum, you could get your members to urinate where they have been. Not sure if an urban myth but recall reading many years ago about a course down south that promoted this to stop badgers digging up a green. They hate the amonia smell apparently.

It’s a myth - the same with garlic and the flashing lights etc , none of it works

What you need to do is have the course near a major road , seems to work for Woburn with the amount seen dead on the A5 nearby ???

 

[KenL]

It’s a myth - the same with garlic and the flashing lights etc , none of it works

What you need to do is have the course near a major road , seems to work for Woburn with the amount seen dead on the A5 nearby ???

Why the ??

 

[Deleted member 29109]

Why the ??

Everyone knows, when you kill a badger you drop it at the side of a road. Right???‍

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Why the ??

Why not ?‍

Badgers have the potential to ruin someone’s business, affect peoples jobs and livelihoods so can’t see any reason why they can’t be relocated

 

[Red devil]

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

Sorry but that is dreadful