society letting down local golf!

[Charlie_B1981]

so i turned up at my local course this week just as a police car was leaving, speaking to the pro we find out there has been vandelism again- happens every few weeks, normally just a few marks from a quad or bike at worst they've driven over a green. walking down the 2nd tee its clear its worse this time. The idiots this time have gone for what can only be described as a joy ride around half the course in what looks like 2 cars! i'm talking fairways ripped up completely, several tee boxes and greens with skid marks, and 2 greens and tees in particular that have had donughts done on them to the point they look like a ploughed field. i'll post pics when i can.

now my course isnt in a deprived area, its not in the middle of a city and is a few miles from the nearest town with quite a well to do private college right next door. so who ever has done it has gone out of their way to get there, hunted around to find a gap to get through on to the course all in the name of them having some 'fun'.

now i know that the world isnt fantastic and there are those out there that see this as not hurting anyone. but how and why can anyone not see the impact this has. not only is there the disruption to the course, the money that has to be spent to repair it, spoiling the enjoyment for a few hundred people every week, but there is the resut of the additional money in added protection to stop it again, the possible increase in fees, the possibility of driving players from the course, people's livlihoods at stake, and why?? all because society has led certain people to believe that this sort of behaviour is acceptable and that even if caught they wont be punished.

now i dont pretend to have the answer i only know that we as a country and community need to do something before its too late before this downward spiral of society is too much that we can never recover.

rant over, thanks for listening

 

[connor]

shocking!!!! some people really are mindless idiots! no doubts the type that thing people who play golf are old yuppies...
is there an obvious place where they entered the course? perhaps erecting a fence or even some large granit rocks in the way could be a fairly cheap option. how long do they think it will take the course to get nack to normal?

 

[AuburnWarrior]

I used to be a member of Mitcham GC in South London. At the time, their greens were some of the best around.

Next door to the golf course was a dirt track that the 'locals' used to thrash their 125ccs on.

Too many times I'd see where boredom had got the better of them and they'd decided that their dirt track was a bit boring so they'd decided to wheel spin across our greens.

You'd be amazed at how much damage a big, fat motorcycle tyre can do to a lovely, closely mown green......

We never did anything to annoy them.

Oh well. We'll get our reward in heaven.

Apparently.

 

[Charlie_B1981]

not really, the college has par 3 next to ours and looks like they came through somewhere near the college entrance and over their course, without a doubt they'll have to do something so boulders or a fence. but its getting a case of block one hole and they'll find another!

 

[richart]

We get the occasional motorbike across the course, but a few years back some idiot drove a car out to the 4 tee, and set light to it. A huge tree behind the tee still has the burn marks. There is a bridle path that runs through the middle of the course, so no way of keeping people out.

Sorry to hear what happened to your course Charlie, it must be soul destroying for your greenkeeper.

 

[upsidedown]

Shocking..Mindless tossers springs to mind

 

[Imurg]

We get some idiots sometimes - last October the Greenstaff had to remove an aerosol can that had been "planted" in the 12th hole and set alight.
Yesterday there was a person just walking throught the course and at one stage skipping like a fairy through long grass..(!??).....

We've had greens damaged too, a couple of footpaths run through the course so there's no way to keep them off.
I don't think there's enough room to get a car through anywhere..

My last course had a problem one Winter's day. A gale the night before had blown a hole in a fence and let a herd of cows through. Hoof marks and Cowpats all over some greens.........

Had a balloon land in the middle of a fairway too..

 

[CMAC]

Tell me your club has CCTV?

Shame that these Neanderthal idiots think it's fun, they are simply Non Educated Delinquents

 

[CMAC]

We had a crisp packet blow across one hole 2 years ago:ears:

 

[MegaSteve]

A few years back the local muni expanded into some adjacent common land... Up to this point, this bit of common land, was only really being used as a dog toilet area for the residents of the nearby posh [expensive] housing estate... By way of reprisal several greens were severly damaged... Hardly the actions of respectable law abiding citizens... But thats how, I suspect, they would've described themselves...

 

[Yer Maw]

It's disgusting behaviour and sadly reflects what is wrong in the UK with a lot (not all) of the youngsters who have zero respect for anything or anyone and I've given up trying to explain why they vandalise out of fun or spite. Other than blame the feckless parents who pump out one deliquent after another getting more booze/fag money for themselves, and successive governments who promise to tackle the issue but do nothing. Bring in more hard working immigrants, slash benefits and export the scum to somewhere in Africa.

 

[MadAdey]

now my course isnt in a deprived area, its not in the middle of a city and is a few miles from the nearest town with quite a well to do private college right next door. so who ever has done it has gone out of their way to get there, hunted around to find a gap to get through on to the course all in the name of them having some 'fun'.

It is shocking what has happened. But it is a bit of an assumption that it must be kids from some deprived council estate isn't it? Is that what you are saying? I lived near St Andrews and the students at one of the most exclusive institutes in the country could really get up to tricks around the town causing mayhem.

 

[AuburnWarrior]

Bring in more hard working immigrants, slash benefits and export the scum to somewhere in Africa.

That's a bit harsh! What has Africa done to deserve our rubbish inhabitants? They have a tough enough time over there without our chavs turning up mob handed! Mind you, having to live as a poor African does might teach our idiots a lesson. That could probably make quite a good TV programme.......

 

[JustOne]

maybe next time... let them play through! :smirk:

 

[Charlie_B1981]

Madaddy- that not what i intended it to sound like, my point was that if we in the middle of run down area where kids are playing all the time or with a ton of pubs nearby where people have a few and think it would be fun i think i could see that then its just people being opportunist. but where we are they must have gone out of their way to get there.

found out today they've also wrecked a local cricket pitch and another club half a mile away, estimated about £20k of damage in total.

 

[Billysboots]

quite a well to do private college right next door

Don't necessarily leap to the conclusion that these vandals have travelled to the course, when the problem could well lie right next door!

I live in a nice village with a good mix of smaller homes, middle class and filthy stinking rich. Some of the filthy stinking rich parents play golf at our place and are the nicest folk you could wish to meet. But their kids, to a very large extent, do not appreciate that the rest of us have to work for what we have, do not understand the value of anything, and consequently are the most appallingly behaved brats on God's earth.

It would not surprise me in the least if your vandals were "rich kids" looking for kicks.

 

[MadAdey]

Madaddy- that not what i intended it to sound like, my point was that if we in the middle of run down area where kids are playing all the time or with a ton of pubs nearby where people have a few and think it would be fun i think i could see that then its just people being opportunist. but where we are they must have gone out of their way to get there.

found out today they've also wrecked a local cricket pitch and another club half a mile away, estimated about £20k of damage in total.

Sorry mate it is just how it came across. Even billy has taken it that way. But the I think the main thing is the attitude of younger people today. It does not matter what background they come from they all have this attitude that they will do what ever they want and to hell with the consequences.