\n The ventilation shaft, leading to a maze of old mining tunnels, is around six-and-a-half feet wide and 25 to 30 feet deep.\n<\/p>\n
\n Perranporth Golf Club has warned locals and dog walkers to beware after the team were notified about the gaping hole.\n<\/p>\n
\n Other deep shafts have also appeared behind the Perranporth Surf Life Saving Club, among the Ramoth Way dunes, and a footpath not directly on the green.\n<\/p>\n
\n Golf club general manager Nathan Gilpin said: “From what mining specialists have been able to decipher – the one on the golf course’s land is a ventilation shaft.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It doesn’t show up on any mining surveys and it’s not big enough for people to have climbed up and down it.\n<\/p>\n
\n An area of the course has been fenced off (Image: Perranporth Golf Club \/ SWNS)\n<\/p>\n
\n “Several other shafts have also opened up on council-owned land nearby – they have all popped up after the storm and the rains we’ve had.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We are looking at our options and speaking with some local experts about what we might need to do.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Obviously with it not being directly a shaft and not being on the actual golf course or residential land there are a few different options.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Luckily it’s not somewhere where you’re going build a house on top!”\n<\/p>\n
\n Nathan revealed the shaft had not opened up on a designated footpath – but it is in an area where people sometimes walk their dogs, despite not being allowed to.\n<\/p>\n
\n The shaft has been cordoned off with fencing until the necessary works are able to be carried out.\n<\/p>\n
\n Drone footage shows a large shaft open up on a golf course (Image: Perranporth Golf Club \/ SWNS)\n<\/p>\n
\n Nathan added: “It’s in an area where someone was walking their dog where they shouldn’t have been.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We have three public footpaths across the course and these are the only routes people should be walking across the dunes.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Fortunately people are still able to play golf on the course.\n<\/p>\n
\n “If someone hits the ball there – at the site of the shaft – they should leave the golf course immediately!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ventilation shaft, leading to a maze of old mining tunnels, is around six-and-a-half feet wide and 25…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-405993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405993","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=405993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}