Given urban density and climate change, the battle for public land is just beginning
Ruth Liston wants to make something clear from the outset.woman says. “It’s not that we think the golfers are elitist. We have continually said we know golf on this nine-hole public course is not played by Donald Trump-types.
Park in Brisbane, Elsternwick in Melbourne and Rosny Park in Hobart have reverted to community parklands, while myriad other public courses have felt the heat of closure campaigns or calls to halve their 18-hole layouts.second council became involved in a dispute “Even if you have never played at Northcote or even seen the course, it doesn’t matter because public golf is the estuary of our game. It is where most people start. Take it away and we don’t have a game … golf needs to stand its ground.”
‘Fairways for the few’: Ruth Liston was part of the failed campaign to open Northcote public golf course to non-golfers after 3pm.In a modern landscape of population pressures, urban density and climate change, Golf Australia knows the battle for public land is just beginning.
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