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The home of golf is becoming not so sweet for both existing and proposed golf courses. A new golf course and proposed junior golf facility were rejected in Cumbrian, which is in northwest England.

Mr Cullingford said there was “no demonstrable deficiency in the provision of golf courses either in the Lake District National Park or in the vicinity of the Armathwaite Hall Hotel” and no need for additional provision.

He said the National Park Local Plan made it clear that new courses in the open countryside would not be permitted in the Lake District National Park.

The NPA refused permission because they considered the scheme would be a large-scale visitor attraction in the open countryside which was not needed in connection with an existing business.

The 6,200-yard-long par 71 course would harm the landscape and quiet nature of the area.

Harming the landscape and quiet nature is a reason for rejecting a golf course?

Next, we have a story of vandalism to the Black Country Golf Course.

Chairman of the club’s greens committee Peter Shirley said attacks at the course had been getting worse during the last three months.

“There’s about 24 small holes gouged in the green as well as two bigger holes,” he said.

“It can cause disruption as well as extra work and extra expense to the golf club.

“A lot of people tend to think that golf clubs are millionaire’s playgrounds but our club isn’t like that, it’s just a club for ordinary people.

“It’s very much a club for local people and when something like this happens so often it starts to affect the management of the rest of the golf club.”

Finally, Scotland’s own Paul Lawrie - the winner of the Open Championship in his homeland - isn’t finding that his hero status is buying him much leeway these days.

But Tony Hawkins, of residents’ action group Green Wedge, said: “This proposed golf course has been rolled out to obscure the real issue.

“Aberdeen has a greenbelt and to stick a housing estate in the middle of the most attractive part is really not sensible.”

Lawrie’s mansion overlooks the development site on the banks of the River Dee.

He said: “I have lots of ideas and I am itching to get started on my first course design project.

“With it being practically on my doorstep I am looking forward to being hands on.”

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