{"id":504820,"date":"2026-03-31T08:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/504820\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:02:08","slug":"gorleston-golf-club-in-norfolk-needs-new-holes-due-to-erosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/504820\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorleston Golf Club in Norfolk needs new holes due to erosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Council officials said in a report the &#8220;loss of existing golf holes because of erosion would severely [affect] the viability of the golf club&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the club&#8217;s agent and golf course architect, Simon Gidman, the site has been affected by erosion for a number of years, particularly the southern half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The north is perhaps better protected thanks to the sea wall at Great Yarmouth, he said in a report to the council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club purchased 50 acres of land at the beginning of the millennium to prepare for the threat posed by erosion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club hoped work could start this spring and could be the course could be open for play by 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is one of the oldest courses in east Norfolk and it is visited by 2,500 golfers each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Council officials said in a report the &#8220;loss of existing golf holes because of erosion would severely [affect]&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-504820","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\/504820","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=504820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}