{"id":439302,"date":"2026-02-22T08:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T08:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439302\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T08:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T08:14:08","slug":"buckinghamshire-golf-course-to-become-football-training-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439302\/","title":{"rendered":"Buckinghamshire golf course to become football training ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Buckinghamshire Golf Club said removing nine holes would mean the new layout would &#8220;more than likely not have an official course rating any time soon&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added, without a recognised course rating, formal competitive play and handicap qualifying golf could not take place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Club Chairman Michael Murphy said members had been given just six weeks&#8217; notice that half of the golf course would be taken out of play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year they were assured that the site would remain open as usual during the design and planning process, he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We believe it is important that the impact on the established sporting community is properly taken into account before a drastic decision to let half a golf course effectively go fallow and unused is enacted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The football club said use of the golf course had declined and was &#8220;no longer financially viable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added it planned to introduce new facilities such as a driving range and argued the nine-hole format would be &#8220;a more flexible way to play&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Buckinghamshire Golf Club said removing nine holes would mean the new layout would &#8220;more than likely not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-439302","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\/439302","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=439302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}