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Night time off-roader ploughs up golf green

by isleofman.com 13th January 2013

Vandals with a taste for off-road driving have caused extensive damage to a fairway at Castletown Golf Course.

Deep ruts and holes appeared on the infamous 5th fairway known as the road hole, after a driver span across the grass at the golf links overnight on Friday (11/12 Jan).

Green keepers have been working to fill holes in the ploughed-up sodden turf with sand and the course and the hole remain playable.

Golf club spokesman Malcolm Lambert says the fairway's been left in quite a mess:

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Posted by isleofman.com
Sunday 13th, January 2013 11:13pm.

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