rudebhoy
Q-School Graduate
Terrible publicity for the club and the sport.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-61299653
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-61299653
Terrible publicity for the club and the sport.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-61299653
I’d say it is poor publicity for the area. Doesn’t really impact golf as a sport.Terrible publicity for the club and the sport.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-61299653
That’s shocking.
Dog walkers can be a pain but violence is totally wrong.
I wonder if there is a right of way for the public?
They need to be caught pronto..
Hopefully they can work it out from the tee time bookings.
I doubt that golfers would spontaneously attack an innocent dog walker minding their own business. Maybe the dog went after one of them and the walker took offence and got physical when the golfer had a swipe at the dog with a 9 iron, and the golfer defended himself?
Not justifying excess violence, but the story is unlikely to be as simple as described.
I doubt that golfers would spontaneously attack an innocent dog walker minding their own business. Maybe the dog went after one of them and the walker took offence and got physical when the golfer had a swipe at the dog with a 9 iron, and the golfer defended himself?
Not justifying excess violence, but the story is unlikely to be as simple as described.
didn't read anywhere that the dog walker was innocent or minding his own business. There has undoubtedly been a confrontation, but regardless of who started it, the poor guy is in hospital with a serious head injury inflicted by a golfer.
We don't know if the guy had a serious head injury, or who provoked who. No excuse for a disproportionate response by either party.
Agree more details needed, but in my experience golfers don't attack dog walkers unprovoked.
The first line of the article said "A dog walker was left with a serious head injury after being attacked at a Renfrewshire golf course following an argument with a group of golfers."
No-one is claiming it was unprovoked either.
They added a proviso in the OAC a few years ago it now says you shouldn't interfear with sport going on and golfers have right of way on courses. We have had to put lots of new signage up all over the boundries with warnings, not that anyone pays much attention.Scottish Outdoor Access Code pretty much gives that. With the exception of private gardens and some, not all, farm land.
Our course has wide open playing fields, a nearby park and a path that stretches all the way round the perimeter of the course but people still insist on walking across the course, because “it’s their right”…
I'd think that's simply their reply to golfers suggesting that they use the, likely less convenient, path rather than the 'short cut' across the course. It's almost certainly what I'd do - if allowed.Scottish Outdoor Access Code pretty much gives that. With the exception of private gardens and some, not all, farm land.
Our course has wide open playing fields, a nearby park and a path that stretches all the way round the perimeter of the course but people still insist on walking across the course, because “it’s their right”…
Scottish Outdoor Access Code pretty much gives that. With the exception of private gardens and some, not all, farm land.
Our course has wide open playing fields, a nearby park and a path that stretches all the way round the perimeter of the course but people still insist on walking across the course, because “it’s their right”…