Vandalism on Golf Courses

[jack1]

Anyone suffer from this? At our course i have become increasingly aware of the level of ongoing vandalism,- rubbish/beer cans, kicking over T stone box hole markers, pinching of flags, rakes and scarring of greens. Apparently they also have been known to hide in bushes and run off with bags of clubs and last but not least to drive stolen cars onto the course and set fire to them on the green, (only once i understand). And i thought it was only members that greenkeepers had to put up with!

 

[didsbury_duffer]

Vermin, Fawlty - shoot 'em.

 

[USER1999]

We get all that too, and kids on mountain bikes skidding on the greens (motorbikes too sometimes). We have had a lot of sledge damage on the 16th green when it snows, which takes months to repair. Apparently the lack of a sign saying no sledging makes it ok, not that the populace of Watford can read any way. People steal signs, flags, tee markers, dig holes in greens, all sorts. That is now part of life.

The bit I really don't get is the rubbish though. Someone who is fit enough to carry a golf bag for 18 holes, with drinks in it and all sorts else, will throw an empty plastic bottle into the shrubbery on the 18th tee, so they don't have to carry it the 400 yards to the bin by the club house. How does that compute? How much does an empty bottle weigh?

 

[matt01]

there is a course never myself,that had a bit off this with damage to four greens on one occasion and then the course was driven over in a car on the next,they said that it was people from the town and that drink was involved

never got anybody for it...... i would like to get them!!!

 

[Bunkers]

Some rapscallions built a snowman to the side of the 3rd green...the EGM is next week...

 

[jack1]

Murph, which club in watford do you play? I am at Stanmore

 

[USER1999]

West Herts.

 

[jack1]

West Herts.

Posh!!

 

[drawboy]

Never mind Chinese drug smuggling, anyone vandalising a golf course should face the death penalty.

 

[Smiffy]

Never mind Chinese drug smuggling, anyone vandalising a golf course should face the death penalty.

I was going to say stand them directly in front of Homer when he's down the range with his driver....
but that wouldn't do any good really would it?

 

[drawboy]

They could die laughing.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Careful or I'll talk you all through my latest range session in miniscule detail. Actually Smiffy my driver is probably my best club at the moment. Personally I'd make them sit through an entire club AGM including the womens version. That should persuade them to keep away.

Its funny but in all my years at Wimbledon COmmon which was full of the public wandering around the only problems we had were the odd kid knicking balls on his bike and families thinking the nicely cut greens were a decent place to have a picnic. No vandalism at all. Even when RA were inside the racecourse the worse thing we'd have after Royal week would be the odd burn mark on a green or fairway from those portable BBQ's and the odd used condom in the rough

 

[Parmo]

Careful or I'll talk you all through my latest range session in miniscule detail. Actually Smiffy my driver is probably my best club at the moment. Personally I'd make them sit through an entire club AGM including the womens version. That should persuade them to keep away.

Its funny but in all my years at Wimbledon COmmon which was full of the public wandering around the only problems we had were the odd kid knicking balls on his bike and families thinking the nicely cut greens were a decent place to have a picnic. No vandalism at all. Even when RA were inside the racecourse the worse thing we'd have after Royal week would be the odd burn mark on a green or fairway from those portable BBQ's and the odd used condom in the rough

Damn those horses!!

 

[kid2]

The OP sounds like a course not far from me

 

[beck9965]

So far this year we've had joy riders doughnut a stolen car on two greens totally destroying them.

 

[big_russ]

About 5 weeks ago I went down on the practice ground at my club, which is inside three holes that get closed off in the wet weather, to try out some new irons. Lager bottles and cider cans all over the fairways and in the range hut. Flags off the range had been thrown around like spears and worst of all the pro's explaner had been upturned and dragged 150 yards accross one of the fairways.

Dirty, idle waste of space kids.