{"id":430859,"date":"2026-02-17T18:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/430859\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T18:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:58:12","slug":"aberdeen-golf-course-vandalised-for-second-time-in-two-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/430859\/","title":{"rendered":"Aberdeen golf course vandalised for second time in two weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The club <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1740229687001749&amp;set=pcb.1740230210335030&amp;locale=en_GB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said on Facebook<\/a>: \u201cOnce again the ground staff at Niggbay golf club turn up for work this morning to more damage sustained to the golf course last night.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThis is the second time in the last fortnight that this has occurred and with the ground being so soft it becomes very hard to repair for the coming season.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>The greens were damaged for the second time in two weeks. (Image: Nigg Bay\/Facebook)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Photos shared by the club show a number of holes pockmarked by what appears to be bike or scooter tracks.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The club added: \u201cThere are plenty green spaces around Torry for people to have fun with bikes and scooters etc without causing this kind of damage to a well maintained golf course.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Scottish Conservative MSP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/topics\/liam-kerr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Liam Kerr<\/a> also hit out at the vandalism, which he labelled \u201cdespicable\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Kerr said: \u201cThis is yet another example of these bikes being used irresponsibly to wreak havoc on areas across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/local-news\/aberdeen-news\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aberdeen<\/a> and it\u2019s about time they were cracked down on\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThe staff and members at Nigg Bay take a lot of pride in the maintenance of the course, which forms a vital part of the Torry community.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Read more:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He added: \u201cRepairing the damage will cost substantial sums of money and will take up a lot of time, just months before the full golf season starts.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI hope those responsible for this terrible act are caught and I would urge anyone who may have witnessed the incident to get in touch with the police immediately.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Described as \u201cone of the best municipal 18 hole courses in Scotland\u201d, Nigg Bay is set along the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/topics\/north-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">North Sea<\/a> coast overlooking the bustling Aberdeen Harbour and the city beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The club said on Facebook: \u201cOnce again the ground staff at Niggbay golf club turn up for work&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-430859","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\/430859","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=430859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}