{"id":814995,"date":"2026-10-27T02:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T02:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/814995\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T02:00:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T02:00:32","slug":"newquay-golf-club-loses-hole-as-storm-austen-batters-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/814995\/","title":{"rendered":"Newquay Golf Club &#8216;loses hole&#8217; as Storm Austen batters coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tEngland\u2019s southwest coastline bore the brunt of Storm Austen, with a number of golf clubs affected in one way or another\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>Newquay is best known for being the surfing capital of the UK. Or you might recognize the famous Headland Hotel, which was the setting of the 1990 film based on Roald Dahl\u2019s The Witches. Now its golf course has inadvertently become home to one of the world\u2019s largest bunkers.<\/p>\n<p>Staff at Newquay Golf Club were relieved to come into work and find all buildings were still intact after wind speeds topping of 70 miles-an-hour battered Cornwall\u2019s coastline. But they weren\u2019t ready for what they would discover out on the course.<\/p>\n<p>The entire par-five eighth hole \u2013 a three-shotter that plays 518 yards off the tips \u2013 was left completely buried after Storm Austen scooped up tons of sand from the neighboring Fistral Beach and dumped it on the famous Harry Colt links. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a brief statement, the club\u2019s general manager Peter Batty said he was \u201cpleased to report that the clubhouse suffered no structural damage\u201d, while the \u201cpractice Nets also survived the high winds\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegrettably,\u201d he continued, \u201cthe course did not fare quite so well. The combination of gale-force north-westerly winds and the dry conditions resulted in a significant amount of sand being blown off the dunes and onto the first part of the eighth fairway. As you can see from the accompanying photographs, the sand has spread across a substantial width of the fairway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"876\" height=\"584\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/newquay-golf-club-8th-hole.jpg\" alt=\"The par-5 8th hole at Newquay Golf Club is completely covered in sand thanks to Storm Austen.\" class=\"wp-image-333733\"  \/>Newquay\u2019s par-five eighth hole is completely covered in sand thanks to Storm Austen. (Credit: Newquay Golf Club)<\/p>\n<p>Until the sand is somehow removed, the hole will be shortened to play as a 147-yard par-three.<\/p>\n<p>Newquay wasn\u2019t the only course in Cornwall bearing the brunt of Storm Austen, with Truro Golf Club being forced to closed due to a number of trees falling.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"876\" height=\"584\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/truro-tree-down.jpeg\" alt=\"A fallen tree at Truro Golf Club\" class=\"wp-image-333732\"  \/>Storm Austen also caused a number of trees to fall at inland courses. (Credit: Truro Golf Club)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England\u2019s southwest coastline bore the brunt of Storm Austen, with a number of golf clubs affected in one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-814995","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\/814995","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=814995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}