Golf Course Vandals!

[Duckster]

Played in our winter league this morning (nice 3&2 win), but the day was marred with just senseless vandalism.

Overnight it looks like someone has come onto the course with a spade and dug up several greens around where the pins were.

1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th (temp and main green), 6th, 10th (fairway and green) and the 13th have all been attacked.

Never take my phone on the course, so no pictures.

Beggars belief what goes on in peoples heads.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Shocking news. Hope the green staff get it repaired and the police catch the culprits (not holding my breath on the latter)

 

[Duckster]

Shocking news. Hope the green staff get it repaired and the police catch the culprits (not holding my breath on the latter)

The horrible thing is that they've done the 5th temp green. Which didn't have a flag in it and is nowhere near the main green. And they did this in the dark. It's almost as if they had knowledge of where that green was......

It'll be hard for the greens staff, they've already stripped quite a bit out of a practice green we did have to extend the 8th green this winter.

 

[srixon 1]

What have these people got against golf courses?

My dads old club was attacked years ago. The vandals poured creosote on a few of the greens that wee easily accessible from a nearby track.

 

[Sponge1980]

My course has suffered from vandals too, a few years back someone did handbrake turns on the 9th and 7th greens.

 

[Rumpokid]

Feel for you Duckster, definitely get police to look into it via committee or hotel owners.Criminal damage at the end of the day.Seems very odd up there.I know Shaw Hill and area.

 

[markgs]

That terrible. sounds like its someone that knows the course. I think its a matter of time before it happens to our course there is a lane next to course and on sundays few kids on scramblers rally up and down screaming abuse at golfers. Matter of time before they scramble on the course

 

[Qwerty]

Total scum, I just can't get my head around why anyone would do such a thing, whether it be mindless vandalism or someone with a grudge.

As rumpokid says it seems odd, certainly around that area and thinking about it There isn't much access onto the course if any other than via the main hotel entrance.
Sounds like they've gone out of their way and put a bit of effort into it with the amount of damage they've done.

Whats the general thinking at the club Duckster... Scrotes with nothing better to do or maybe someone with a grudge against the hotel??

Regardless, I hope they're caught and your greens recover as soon as possible :thup:

 

[Duckster]

Total scum, I just can't get my head around why anyone would do such a thing, whether it be mindless vandalism or someone wih a grudge.

As rumpokid says it seems odd, certainly around that area and thinking about it There isn't much access onto the course if any other than via the main hotel entrance.
Sounds like they've gone out of their way and put a bit of effort into it with the amount of damage they've done.

Whats the general thinking at the club Duckster... Scrotes with nothing better to do or maybe someone with a grudge against the hotel??

Regardless, I hope they're caught and your greens recover as soon as possible :thup:

Pretty much 50-50.

Personally I think it's someone who knows the course layout quite well so possibly someone with a grudge.

 

[ExRabbit]

Pretty much 50-50.

Personally I think it's someone who knows the course layout quite well so possibly someone with a grudge.

That sucks! I live close to Shaw Hill (Clayton-le-Woods). I hope it doesn't continue round here.

 

[patricks148]

it never ceases to amaze me the amount of effort that people will go to destroy something and how little to do something positive

 

[jpjeffery]

it never ceases to amaze me the amount of effort that people will go to destroy something and how little to do something positive

Because it's easier than creating/building something, but still gives them a sense of achievement. All born out of low self-esteem, I suspect.

My lentil eating tendencies do not got as far as forgiving the scoundrels though. They still have a choice, and they make the wrong one.

 

[mrwoo]

haha low self asteem my arrse. It's someone with a grudge, me and my mates used to drive onto a posh golf course in Berkshire when we were teens and chase the posh boys from Goring haha! All good fun

 

[Swingalot]

On the positive side of things, our course got done pre Christmas if you remember the thread with the green that had a 6ft grave dug into it but due to some fantastic work by the greenkeepers we were back playing on it in around 6 weeks.

I will not go in to much detail, but I know plans are in place to catch the people responsible for the damage as well, I just hope the net falls over them at the right time (on a Saturday night when there are a few dozen lads in the bar who can educate them and put right their obvious faults...........)