USER1999
Grand Slam Winner
They are a protected species. Unless you are a government agency, and then it's open season.
Badgers
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Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
After water extraction, existing badger sets are the main reason for new courses failing to get planning consent.
rickg
Money List Winner
get your satnav out Steve!! It's the Grove that is next door to West Herts, not Brocket Hall....
SocketRocket
Ryder Cup Winner
What about the lack of Golfers?
SocketRocket
Ryder Cup Winner
Why?
SocketRocket
Ryder Cup Winner
And most definitely put up a sign about not licking balls!
Only really effective at getting (killing) the surface feeding ones, and then a fair amount of hassle - leaving clippings on the surface.
Might be a cure for greens but certainly not a 'green cure'!
Bloody expensive to spray an entire course too!
??? Greens but not a green cure
Just spray the areas where the Badgers are a pest.
PhilTheFragger
Provider of Entertainment for the Golfing Gods 🙄
Shoot them, at night, then run away,... nobody will know
just like the little oiks who light fires on the greens at our place
maybe the club should put up a bounty
but what is worth more , a badger or an oik?
Fragger
just like the little oiks who light fires on the greens at our place
maybe the club should put up a bounty
but what is worth more , a badger or an oik?
Fragger
fundy
Ryder Cup Winner
lol yep, was actually mid herts I was thinking of which is obv next to brocket and not west herts
Foxholer
Blackballed
??? Greens but not a green cure
Just spray the areas where the Badgers are a pest.
As I posted previously, it would be expensive to spray the entire course - about 2.5k per time - repeated a couple of times each Autumn and Spring. It ONLY gets the casting ones (3 of the nearly 30 varieties) as it's only effective on the surface and has some pretty iffy possible side effects reported (reduced testicle sizes!). To be effective, sprayed grass clippings have to be left on the surface - so the surface feeding/casting worms collect it - so not a great method overall.
The Badgers detect worms, then rip up the turf, so they will move elsewhere if no worms are about. But that is still likely to be on the golf course!
Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
You cannot reject a plan on comercial reasons..........no matter how stoopid it is [or a design]
I have seen some crazy ones in my time. first prize was one that included a complete hairpin dogleg par 5 which I could have hit from tee to green with a 5 iron.
need_my_wedge
Has Now Found His Wedgie
Seems we've been hit by Badgers too. Playing over the weekend I noticed three parts of the course where the turf had been dug up in volumes. It looks like horses have been stomping all over the place but when discussing with one of the green staff he informed me that the badgers start digging it up and the crows follow it and make it worse. He's shot about 40 crows last week, but can't do anything about the badgers.
Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
Semmingly wild boars in Germany are even worse than badgers
6inchcup
Journeyman Pro
bloody badgers,i hate it when they dig up the course and leave their mess everywhere,the strange smell that they give off and the way they barge everywhere and don't give a dam for anyone else,and the cheeky blighters are now after cheaper green fees,cull the lot of them!!!!!
JPH
Q-School Graduate
"Badgers badgers , we don't need no steenking badgers "
bobmac
Major Champion
The good news is they taste just like chicken 
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thecraw
Guest
Everybody knows, badgers love mashed potato!
ArnoldArmChewer
Tour Winner
+1 here, never had the problem before but we have several areas of damage on the course which have been attributed to Badgers.
need_my_wedge
Has Now Found His Wedgie
[video=youtube;8BUHf3tY9JI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BUHf3tY9JI[/video]
Couldn't help it..........
Couldn't help it..........
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
JPH
Q-School Graduate
Mushroom mushroom lol
