Dunaverty Golf Club - Hypocrisy or are they correct?

[toyboy54]

And does all your bodyweight bear down through your trolley the same way as it does on a sledge? And do your tyres roll or slide? I suspect the relative pressures & stresses are rather different.

BIM...I think that's what I meant to say-thanks!
Dumbo

 

[bigslice]

i think the person who started the thread on the facebook page was trying to stir things up, i cud be wrong

 

[Val]

How do you get people to stay off the greens? A lot will be non golfers that do not understand the damage they could potentially do. Report them to the police.

For those that have visited Dunaverty they will know how easy. They can keep cows off with their method so people should be easy enough too

 

[Golfnut1957]

For those that have visited Dunaverty they will know how easy. They can keep cows off with their method so people should be easy enough too

And for those that haven't, we don't have a clue what you are on about.

 

[azazel]

And for those that haven't, we don't have a clue what you are on about.

Electric fences around four greens to stop cows from the neighbouring farm getting on them.

 

[Val]

And for those that haven't, we don't have a clue what you are on about.

They have a wire fence round their greens

 

[PhilTheFragger]

They have a wire fence round their greens

Yeah
Almost kept @Captainron off too or was that a prod? ?

 

[Deleted member 1147]

Where is the potential hypocrisy from the club?

 

[ScienceBoy]

Where is the potential hypocrisy from the club?

Committee members and their families are allowed to sled?

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Isn't there something in Scotland about public access to golf courses?

Access is fine provided they do not cause disruption/interference to play, put themselves at risk and/or damage the golf course.
We used to have hundreds of sledgers a day on one of my old courses, no bother at all. The greenstaff roped off a green and all respected that.

 

[Deleted member 1147]

Committee members and their families are allowed to sled?

??‍

 

[patricks148]

Where is the potential hypocrisy from the club?

i think it might be to do with the farmers tractor driving over the course being ok but not cars parked on it, i've only got that from reading the FB post though

 

[nickjdavis]

Maybe the sledgers were a team from the local union assessing the Slope Rating of the course?

(Sorry).

At the end of the day it seems the club has determined that there is not enough snow on the course to allow sledging without damaging the underlying grass and has asked people to respect their request to not sledge. Good old Joe public has decided to ignore that request because that's what Joe Public seem to do these days....they care about nothing and no-one but themselves.

If the potential for damage is there then the club must try and do something to protect the interests of the people who actually directly fund the upkeep of the course.

 

[Sports_Fanatic]

Club well within their rights to warn and potentially involve police so nothing to complain about..

Personally, given it's a couple of days a year max generally and golfers won't be playing in the snow then I'd just put a fence/tape in front of the greens directly at the bottom of the hills and let people get on with it. It personally feels like the fun for kids and adults to experience is more than a couple of marks on the fairway for perhaps a month. I appreciate the world doesn't work like that it's protection of members position over community spirit.

 

[azazel]

Where is the potential hypocrisy from the club?

I think some people have seized on "we welcome visitors to play golf" and "you shouldn't be travelling to our course to sledge because of lockdown" and decided that's hypocritical, which is just nonsense.