{"id":69431,"date":"2025-08-14T16:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T16:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/69431\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T16:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T16:33:07","slug":"letter-reader-critical-of-golf-course-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/69431\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Reader critical of golf course coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discover guide mentions this community is home to some of the most scenic golf courses in the country<\/p>\n<p>Dear Editor,<\/p>\n<p>Your article \u201cPitt Meadows, Maple Ridge a golfers paradise&#8221;\u00a0was a complete waste of time.<\/p>\n<p>Pitt Meadows has five 18-hole courses (at four clubs \u2013 Pitt Meadows Golf Club, Golden Eagle Golf Club, Meadow Gardens Golf Club, and two 72-par courses at Swaneset Bay Resort and Country Club), and Maple Ridge has one executive nine-hole course and one Mickey Mouse par 3 course \u2013 while Pitt Meadows has less than 20 per cent\u00a0the population of Maple Ridge.<\/p>\n<p>Maple Ridge\u00a0has already closed down one executive course (Heather Hills) and is about to close Maple Ridge Golf Course, leaving Maple Ridge\u00a0 with only a par 3 course left.<\/p>\n<p>What a joke.<\/p>\n<p>Except for possibly Swan-E-Set, the other courses you glow about don\u2019t hold a candle to 50-per-cent-plus\u00a0of other courses I\u2019ve played in B.C.<\/p>\n<p>The chambers of commerce must have written this article.<\/p>\n<p>Murray McColeman, Maple Ridge<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Discover guide mentions this community is home to some of the most scenic golf courses in the country&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,43649,82],"class_list":["post-69431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-golfletter-to-the-editormaple-ridgepitt-meadowstourism","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}