How does your club stop the peasants from getting in?

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Some courses are very private and hide their course from the general public.

What marks the boundary of your course?

Small hedge/fence, big fence/hedge, big trees, walls etc etc
Or doesn't your club bother
 
Nothing, we are right next to the beach surprisingly, and we often get folk wandering about the course, especially near the second green and third tee box.
 
Our course has a large hedgerow and trees to one side and large trees and an industrial estate to the other.

The trees are so thick you can't even see what's behind them ,be it the main road or the units.
 
Nothing. There are way too many footpaths and public rights of way to bother with any fencing.

We do have some tree trunks positioned to keep cars from being driven onto the course though. This is after some kids torched a stolen Volks on the 4th green.
 
It doesn't, but then we don't have an issue with the Craigmiller young team wandering on.

The only issue we have is the kids of posh people staying at the P'field Hotel wandering onto the 15th fairway. 3 or 4 times I've just been about to tee off when little Porcha or Tarquin has wandered past without a care in the world and mummy and daddy nowhere to be seen.
 
We have a couple of mobile units....

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Actually we have a bit of a problem occasionally with teenagers walking where they like as there is a small right of way path across one tiny bit of the course which they see as an open invitation onto our course.
 
Dog walkers and joggers are big pain. Just about to Tee off, and I see a jogger wandering across the fairway at about 200 Yards. The jogger sees you, standing there waiting, and they decide to start jogging along the length of the fair way.

Oh well, just smack the ball and hope I reach 250 yards :)

It is annoying. I don;t see how some people think it is ok to wander across a golf course when they certainly wouldn;t wander across a footie pitch in middle of game. A golf ball would do much more damage than a football!
 
no right of way, but difficult to stop the local youths wandering on and making off with the odd flagstick.

apparently fencing too expensive, which is a shame as they seem to have a taste for digging up greens.
 
no right of way, but difficult to stop the local youths wandering on and making off with the odd flagstick.

apparently fencing too expensive, which is a shame as they seem to have a taste for digging up greens.
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How about nettles and gorse bushes? :)
 
Old demense walling and a bit of hedging - never seen anyone on the course that should not be there - but then again I have to nip onto the next doors private runway and polo pitch to get my ball back the odd time - no joke we are bounded by a polo pitch, grass landing strip private shooting ground and a road so well enough out off the way no one really annoys us - lucky suppose.
 
We get ALOT of people on our course who shouldn't be there, unfortunately, they've paid a green fee, so we can't kick them off :(

We don't get random strangers at ours too much though. Mostly because two sides of the course backs onto Fields. Another backs onto the Severn Channel thingy and the other (where you get on) is from the main road into the village, but the driveway is long so tends to keep people out. Never seen any "pedestrians" wandering around the course.
 
We dont have anything. To many public paths and the fishing rights to the ponds have been let to a local club. Plus it's a club connected to a muni course, in the middle of Heaton park manchester. Funny as it sounds we have no trouble with the local(yobs, youths). Infact with it being a muni a lot of them play the course. I have played with them mid week sometimes, when I have been on my own.Some of them look really rough, but turned out to be nice lads. So you can't alway judge a book by its cover(pretty good if you want a cheap TV or owt though lol).
 
Our course is on Common Land, bequeathed to the people by, I think, Robert the Bruce and we therefore have many people on the course walking to the beach.

We also have the reverse where we have hundreds walking across the course, having parked at the beach, to get to the local football match and of course, walk back again at the end of the game.

Do you know a strange thing? I have never played with any golfer who allowed this to upset them in any way. A shout to get them to stand until a shot is made or a wee wait until it is safe to hit your ball, is the only problem.

Maybe we are more tolerant up here.

Oh, and Bob, we also have game birds and deer on our course and a few peasants dressed in the away support colours!
 
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