{"id":488289,"date":"2026-02-18T16:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/488289\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:57:07","slug":"golf-course-bans-phone-use-during-half-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/488289\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf course bans phone use during half term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The decision to ban mobile phones at a miniature golf course in Kent for half-term has been received positively by the majority of patrons, the operator has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Customers visiting Mr Mulligan&#8217;s Dino Golf in Tonbridge this week have been asked to put their phone on airplane mode and &#8220;concentrate on each other&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Stephen Brown, chief operating officer for Adventure Leisure Ltd, which operates the site, said the phone free initiative was inspired by customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;The feedback is that actually they just want to have quality time together, and this point of devices comes up more frequently than you would think,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The decision to ban mobile phones at a miniature golf course in Kent for half-term has been received&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-488289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}