Greenkeeping team praised for incredible repair job
By Alistair Dunsmuir
A golf course in the West Midlands has been vandalised after a car drove onto the venue and damaged a green and a fairway – but the greenkeeping team had the green back in play later the same morning.
Andrew Wood, the golf course manager at Enville Golf Club, posted shocking images of the damage on social media.
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He wrote that a car had crashed through gates at the club and drove onto one of its two 18-hole courses, The Lodge.
Incredibly, the green was back in play later that same morning.
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“What a team,” he wrote on Sunday.
“This morning, one of our courses was vandalised after a car crashed through a set of gates on The Lodge course and continued to try and destroy our 3rd green and 13th fairway.
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“Before I got in, my supervisor had adjusted and prioritised jobs so that we could still set up both courses for members to play but also give us bodies to begin repairs.
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“Two of our team changed planned arrangements so that we could complete the repair work as quickly as possible and get the green back in play.
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“By 10:30am the green was back in play for the members.
“Just one example of going the extra mile and the great work greenkeeping teams up and down the land carry out.
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“It’s the reason why I get annoyed when they are so often undervalued.”
By Alistair Dunsmuir
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I’m not joking when I say this. The offender/s should be horsewhipped then given 2 years imprisonment. They might think differently about future behaviour when they re emerge.
Utterly disgusting.
Unfortunately it seems a statement against those that have.
The great Hollingwell suffered in the same way.
Sad.
What a mindless act of vandalism.
If the time and effort thinking these things up was used for good; the world would be a better place.
Congratulations to the green keepers for a spectacular and rapid response to repair the course. Obviously dedicated and committed.
We had a similar problem at Beamish Park with kids getting on the course on trial bikes and quad bikes. One of the fairways was damaged and the 9th green badly damaged but credit to our green staff they had the damage repaired quickly.
This starting to look more and more like eco terrorism, not some foolish adolescents. Makes me sick, heck of job by the ground’s keepers.
It’s really crazy how someone can do something so awful and destructive, but good superintendents can make a golf course look “perfect” before the sun comes up…