Golf score cards are littered with birds – current and extinct. We hear a lot about the albatross, eagle, birdie and so on. We hear less about the condor (four under par) and the archaeopteryx (15 over par – and you have to pass dodos and great auks to get there.)
Marlborough Golf Club has a problem that’s not on the score card, but may well affect scores. They are sometimes plagued by rooks and crows.
Left alone these birds can cause real damage to greens. The problem was raised at a recent meeting of the Marlborough Common Users Group and Chris Bradford of the Marlborough Model Flying Club came up with a possible solution: bring in a falconer.
He said that rooks and crows are wary of birds of prey and this method of pest control was highly successful. Marlborough News Online will be there to see the falcons and hawks in action.
Should you ever need it, ‘falcon’ is one over par and ‘hawk’ is two over par. But the crows and rooks won’t be bothered about that.
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