Golf on Sunday
Posted: Friday, 07 December 2007 |
Stornoway Golf Course under snow, March 2006
Stornoway Golf Club have applied to their landlord, the Stornoway Trust, for permission to play golf on Sunday. A previous application, 2 years ago, was turned down with a unanimous vote. Having sought legal advice, the Golf Club have announced that another refusal to play golf on Sunday will result in a legal challenge.
Quite frankly, I do not see what harm a game of golf does on Sunday, bearing in mind that the golf course lies outside the town centre.
Comments
I can't see the problem of golf on a Sunday. After all the golf course is a holey place (18 at the last count).
Hyper-Borean from The 19th
what harm would it do? if u wanted u could go to church, home for dinner and then a nice round of golf if thats what floats ur boat! And talking about floating boats then the ferry could start sailing to at long last....
just me from harris
Personally, I do not see what good a game of golf does on a Sunday, or any day of the week/year for that matter. True, I don't wear a kilt either. # Lots of nice golf courses in the desert hereabouts, and then the same golfers moan about the disappearing aquifer... # What does being outside the town center have to do with working with a putting device on a Sunday, Arnish?
mjc from NM,USA
Once again religious feeling imposes its own beliefs on others. Why do we non-believers have to put up with this attitude in all walks of year and in all countries year after year? Isn't all religious fundamentalism basically harmful to modern society?
Barney from Swithiod snowless and godless
Horray !!! Maybe then the gate will get opened as well
Tim from stornoway
Tim, The gate is shut because certain people took their cars into the Castle Grounds on a Sunday, to harrass and abuse walkers.
Arnish Lighthouse from Stornoway
I think he means out of sight out of mind, mjc. As long as the golfing is done well away from the eyes of the many Presbyterian sects in town, then no harm done...
Flying Cat from I could be wrong...
Name a each hole after a saint: would that be good enough a gesture? After a much needed prayer at each hole (some golfers might use two or three prayers), the players could let it rip.
mjc from NM,USA
Choice of photo = suggestion of a slippery slope? ;-)
42nd Earl from Left of Narnia
mjc, I suspect naming the holes after saints is about the worst thing they could do, given the location ...
Jill from EK
Your are right again, Jill. Must be the Papist in me peeking through.
mjc from NM,USA
Do you think he was born clutching a wooden spoon, Jill?
Flying Cat from Saints Alive!
Close enough, FC # Salt fish morsels on Fridays and ne'er a silver spoon in sight.
mjc from NM,USA
Another thought occurs. The name of the Lord is often invoked by practitioners of this arcane ritual, normally when the small sphere fails to fall into the hole on the larger one. As this probably occurs more frequently than the invocation within the walls of the Kirk perhaps the greens are sanctified thereby.
Hyper-Borean from A good walk (ruined)
As per article in front page of Wall Street Journal today, there is a rumor that the Stornoway Country/Golf Club is contemplating naming one of the golf holes, Trump. No, not tongue in cheek, but more Tong in Lewis, it would seem. Apparently Trump has been turned down re: development in Scottish mainland, and the McDonalds of Lewis (apparently his mother is one of them) are (almost)all clamoring for him to bring his bouffant hairdo to Lewis. I don't think he would take kindly to have his development having to stand down on Sundays, though. Can your sources confirm, AL?
mjc from NM,USA
the photo would make a great 'spot the golfball' competition!
calum woods from 19th hole ness
I would like to think he is the last Trump...
Flying Cat from drat the man!
I too have heard it said that DT has Lewis connections through his mother - I think this is correct. How about a Trump Tower in Bayble - surely the Wee Frees would approve? Other famous rumours - Paul Jones the singer with Manfred Mann was once married to a Lewis lass as was Andy Gray the footballer - not to the same lass you understand.
calumjezebel from wikepedia cottage brue
No wonder there are no wimmin left for the Lewis lads, what with all those latter-day raiders carrying them all off.
Flying Cat from viking tendencies
I have been in Lewis since late 2004 and am observing life on this fascinating island from an outsider's perspective. I look out at the lighthouse every day - as it looks out over the island and the sea. 
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