{"id":699509,"date":"2026-05-28T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/699509\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T07:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:00:08","slug":"stray-balls-from-ufford-golf-course-could-put-a-child-in-a-coma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/699509\/","title":{"rendered":"Stray balls from Ufford golf course &#8216;could put a child in a coma&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">William Swan, golf course architect for Swan Golf Designs, says the suggestion that some older courses require a redesign needs to be taken &#8220;seriously&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Golf has changed and this puts new challenges on our old golf courses, many of which were designed over a century ago, but also golf playing,&#8221; says the 46-year-old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Technology has changed hugely over the past couple of decades, with golfers able to hit it further and higher than before, just not necessarily straighter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[The industry must] make sure golf courses stay enjoyable, sustainable, fun and safe places to be, for the golfers and our neighbouring communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"William Swan, golf course architect for Swan Golf Designs, says the suggestion that some older courses require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-699509","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\/699509","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=699509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}