“People are having to go to various other clubs, and some of which are now full because there are so many of us needing to move,” Ms Northover explained.<\/p>\n
“The overwhelming feeling is one of great sadness that this green space will no longer be there because once it’s gone, you can’t get it back.<\/p>\n
“It’s the physical exercise, the mental wellbeing you get from the sport, making friends, having a chat afterwards, playing competitions if you want to.”<\/p>\n
David Young, who has been a member of the golf club for about 40 years, said the club had been “open to everybody, it’s not been exclusive, it’s always been very inclusive”.<\/p>\n
“Lots of local people have valued what it offered, and that’s much more important than whatever has been won or not won,” he added.<\/p>\n
Ms Northover said her favourite memory had been a hole-in-one on the second, “although I didn’t see it go in the hole because you can’t see it from the tee”.<\/p>\n
She said she had made “friends for life” at the club, before adding that she was “off to play the course one last time”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“People are having to go to various other clubs, and some of which are now full because there…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-236327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}