Morons damaging course

[sweatysock41]

Got told by my mate this morning that 3 Greens at the course had been damaged by some moron in a stolen 4x4 deciding to bulldoze his way onto the course via a farmers fence and proceeding to go cross country and do donuts on the greens.

http://www.tamworthherald.co.uk/Fur...ne-Golf-Club/story-26200435-detail/story.html

Not content with stealing someones property they don't care about the impact they have on hundreds of other law abiding citizens for 5 minutes thrill. I know where I'd like to tee up my next ball - given my current ball striking a misshit is almost assured.:angry:

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Sadly even if the police catch them, the courts are hardly likely to impose a suitable sentence, if a custodial one is imposed at all

 

[snell]

Happened to a course round our way last year......absolute bell ends!

http://www.durhamtimes.co.uk/news/11392050.Vandals_use_tractor_stolen_from_museum_to_churn_up_golf_greens/?ref=var_0

 

[JohnnyDee]

It often worries me that if the local toughs living in the vicinity of any course understood how much mindless damage they could inflict on a course by simply taking a pickaxe to greens, then we'd all have so much more vandalism to endure.

 

[upsidedown]

Gadzooks Playing there later this year in an Open.

 

[Kellfire]

Another case from two years ago... Play this course often and someone really didn't take the takeover well!

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/ne..._hell__on_Darlington_golf_club_greens/?ref=mr

 

[sweatysock41]

Gadzooks Playing there later this year in an Open.

The greenkeepers think that they will have the damaged greens open for play again within a couple of weeks, by the time you play them they should be pristine.

 

[upsidedown]

The greenkeepers think that they will have the damaged greens open for play again within a couple of weeks, by the time you play them they should be pristine.

:thup:

 

[snell]

Another case from two years ago... Play this course often and someone really didn't take the takeover well!

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/ne..._hell__on_Darlington_golf_club_greens/?ref=mr

Crazy that like, thats properly planned that to burn words onto the greens!!

 

[Kellfire]

Crazy that like, thats properly planned that to burn words onto the greens!!

The vague silhouette of the words persisted for a very long time, too. The person knew exactly what to use to cause long lasting damage and took real care when applying it. Rumours were abound of a disgruntled groundskeeper who wasn't retained after the merger.

 

[snell]

The vague silhouette of the words persisted for a very long time, too. The person knew exactly what to use to cause long lasting damage and took real care when applying it. Rumours were abound of a disgruntled groundskeeper who wasn't retained after the merger.

Yeah its defintely a 'revenge' sort of job that, rather than a mindless act of vandalism

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

I know it looks bad now but a similar thing happened at my previous club and in reality it's not as bad as it seems. If properly repaired, you'll hardly notice a thing in a couple of weeks, especially at this time of year as the growing season is just about to start.

Chin up fella, don't let the imbeciles win :thup:

 

[C&R]

Shocking😡

 

[Beezerk]

Happened to a course round our way last year......absolute bell ends!

http://www.durhamtimes.co.uk/news/1...rom_museum_to_churn_up_golf_greens/?ref=var_0

So they improved the place then?

 

[Break90]

I know a bloke through work on the committee at Atherstone GC, I've played it a few times with him.

lovely course, greens were pretty good IIRC