While I feel a bit sorry for the polo shirt and tweed pants brigade, the government has a responsibility to the wider community.
If the example of the concrete jungles built in the US and UK in the 60s and 70s – as well as COVID lockdowns – taught us anything, it was that humans need green spaces. And with a housing affordability and supply crisis dogging NSW more than any other state, sacrifices will be necessary.The fear is obviously that this will be the thin edge of the sand-wedge.
Golfers likely fear that city courses might soon have highrise apartments surrounding the local nine holes, but I’m sure some shrewd entrepreneurial types will work out a way to rent out their apartment on weekends so that golfers can tee-off from their third-floor apartment balcony, transforming a short par three into a challenging par five.
There will also be some who argue that the government’s decision will impact the health benefits of golf, especially for older Australians, where the walk between the golf buggy and the green is the only exercise they get during the week.That said, some cardiologists would argue that the reduction in blood pressure among patients from playing less golf might be a healthy outcome. That would, of course, be those cardiologists that could be reached for comment while on the golf course.
No one likes to see their hobby impeded, especially at a golf course that has been open to the public for around 100 years. And comments from some locals and the Moore Park Golf Club president would suggest that patrons aren’t going to sit quietly in the 19th hole clubhouse and let the government play through.
It’s times like these I feel lucky to have hobbies with far less constricting boundaries, like fishing. I mean, it’s pretty hard to cut a swathe out of the ocean, right?Brad Emery is a freelance writer.
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