confirmed last week<\/a> that it was the new owner and that it intended to apply for the course to be rezoned \u2013 to allow for residential development.<\/p>\n\u201cAnd if the golf club is to finally end in closure, it\u2019ll be lost forever. There won\u2019t be another one in this area. And the cost to build a new quality golf course is probably in the hundreds of millions of dollars,\u201d said Hadlee.<\/p>\n
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Pegasus Golf Course in North Canterbury.<\/p>\n
Hadlee, a former world record holder for the most test wickets, sold his luxury home overlooking the golf course in 2024 but still lives in Pegasus township.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just a nice place to live. I think there\u2019s something like 80 houses on the golf course; there\u2019s probably well over 1000 houses down in the township.\u201d<\/p>\n
Residents will gather at a public meeting on June 2 at Woodend Community Centre to better understand the situation and formulate their opposition. Hadlee says the residents and golf club members are united.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want the golf course to survive in some sort of capacity, with a new owner who will invest in it, to care for it, and to look after it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Sir Richard Hadlee during the first test against Australia on February 21, 1986, when he joined the elite “300 club”. His career total of 431 test wickets was a world record. Photo \/ Paul Estcourt<\/p>\n
Hadlee believes another development in the area is unnecessary \u2013 particularly at the expense of the golf course. He thinks Wolfbrook\u2019s plans are opportunistic.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think they bought it for around about $6 million to $7 million. So they\u2019re gonna make a lot of money out of it. That\u2019s their only interest. I don\u2019t think they\u2019re interested in the community, the members and Pegasus in general,\u201d said Hadlee.<\/p>\n
Mike Thorpe<\/a> is a senior multimedia journalist for the Herald, based in Christchurch. He has been a broadcast journalist across television and radio for 20 years and joined the Herald in August 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe were drawn to Pegasus to live a dream. Building on the golf course to play three times…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[549,456,533,545,547,551,544,538,540,44,92,543,536,541,537,434,452,535,539,546,534,550,548,478,542],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-been","tag-course","tag-cricket","tag-cricketers","tag-devastated","tag-developer","tag-ever","tag-fight","tag-from","tag-golf","tag-great","tag-greatest","tag-hadlee","tag-housing","tag-joins","tag-pegasus","tag-property","tag-richard","tag-save","tag-shocked","tag-sir","tag-sold","tag-that","tag-to","tag-zealands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}