{"id":675995,"date":"2026-01-05T18:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/675995\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T18:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:47:10","slug":"ifield-golf-club-members-protest-over-closure-and-housing-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/675995\/","title":{"rendered":"Ifield Golf Club members protest over closure and housing plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alan Covey, a member and a manager and selector for the England Boys golf team, said the news was broken to them in a meeting two weeks before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;2027&#8217;s our centenary, so it means we&#8217;re not going to celebrate our centenary,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The sad thing is the whole aspect has not got planning permission so this land could lay fallow for years and years and years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s not enough places around the county for these members to go, all the golf courses are full up, all the junior sections are full up. Some will give up the sport entirely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s their life, these guys come here every day, have a coffee with their friends, it&#8217;s not all about golf, it&#8217;s about community and mental health, and it&#8217;s being taken away from us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alan Covey, a member and a manager and selector for the England Boys golf team, said the news&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-675995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115843985839715303","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}