Council to resurrect closed golf club

I remember working at this golf course as first assisstant greenskeeper back in maybe 2008. Jack Barker ruined it. Only the front 9 were open the back 9 were that over grown you couldn’t get the gang mowers on them, despite every effort to re open the back 9, I think we only managed 2 maybe 3 fairways and greens. Jack Barker had a contract with the A500 development at the time and took all the bricks, clay and sand from the A500 redevelopment and dumped it on the 7th, 8th and 9th fairways in a bid to remodel the course, but water doesn’t drain through clay, so jack barker brought in a 180 tonne tracked front excavator which were drove over the fairways and the 7th green to dig V-ditches everywhere in a bid to solve the drainage problem he created…. these v-ditches had white out of bounds markers all along them which made play pointless. Of all the 5000 tones of clay dumped on it while I was there and what ever after I left…. as a highly quallified greenskeeper….. goldenhill g.c is beyond saving unless you had 100’s of millions of pounds to first remove all that was dumped on it. As an example the average golf course green with irrigation & Drainage and a gold bar 5 grass seed mix sitting on 30inches of 70/30 rootzone soil is valued roughly at £7million in its complete state, yeah fair enough is doesn’t cost that much to build it… but if you can value a green at that much, just think what you need under them 30inches of perfect soil…… its never happening.