"It's disgusting, and I'm pissed off."

It's hard to imagine that all of the animosity directed at golf in San Francisco is not somehow to blame for the recent vandalism incidents at sweet, harmless Golden Gate Park, a gem of a par-3 course that should not be blamed for whatever ills the extremist environmentalists think Sharp Park brings to our planet.

At least one four-wheeled vehicle ran over and severely damaged holes six, seven and eight the night of Sept. 30. The same holes were hit again on Monday night, said Phil Ginsburg, general manager of the Recreation and Park Department. The damage was so severe that "it looked like they literally set off a bomb," said the course's gardener, Joe Faulkner.

"The folks were brazen enough to leave orange cones indicating they were taking off-road racing quite passionately," Ginsburg said. "It's disgusting, and I'm pissed off."

Comments

[Old Hornet]

Sad. Evidently Phil Ginsburg doesn't know how the system works. CBD (Center for Biological Diversity) extorted 1MM from Alemeda County in exchange for dropping its protest. So far 14 environmental groups in 19 states have received 4.6MM in tax payer dollars (documented), no telling what the total is if you add in private business as one company forked over 22MM to WWP and ONDA to go away.

[NRH]

As the article states, there were at least two other recent instances of wanton vandalism in GGP, on a similar scale but unrelated to golf.
It could be locals who really seem to hate the "pro" that runs the place and accuse him of skimming/up-selling. See his reviews on yelp.
It could be teenagers being dumb.

The fact that it happened on two nights in less than a week though is pathetic.

[Sgt, Preston]

Security.

[lobo]

I hope they used a hybred or eletric green vehicle to do this.

[jeff]

Lobo,
Just brilliant stuff...at least learn to spell. Chances of developing a sense of humor appear unlikely.