“Patterned holes of varying sizes” were dug on a golf course causing thousands of pounds worth of damage, a club has said.<\/p>\n
Nottinghamshire Police said officers were called to reports of damage to seven greens at Bondhay Golf Club, in Worksop, caused in the early hours of Sunday, between midnight and 05:30 BST.<\/p>\n
The club said in a statement this would cause “severe disruption” to golfers for a “number of weeks”.<\/p>\n
Police are urging anyone with information to come forward and the club is offering a \u00a31,000 reward to help identify those involved.<\/p>\n
The club said the turf was also chopped up and thrown around, “creating further mess”.<\/p>\n
“They have caused thousands of pounds of damage to the 18-hole course and disrupted the bookings for at least the upcoming days,” the club added.<\/p>\n
“The two greenkeepers already on duty were swiftly joined by members of the team who assessed the damage and got to work immediately in conducting initial surface repairs. <\/p>\n
“This was just the beginning of a process to return the greens to as high a standard as possible, with work continuing daily. <\/p>\n
“Damage of this severity undoubtedly will now cause severe disruption to our members and visiting golfers, and to the wider business as a whole. <\/p>\n
“We will do everything in our power to make the recovery as swift as possible, but the impacts could last for a number of weeks.”<\/p>\n
The club said further CCTV cameras, surveillance equipment and other preventative measures would be installed to prevent future incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Patterned holes of varying sizes” were dug on a golf course causing thousands of pounds worth of damage,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-786146","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\/786146","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=786146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}