One person's abandoned golf course is someone else's development opportunity

摘要

Here's an idea to tackle the urban housing crisis. Don't dig up the green belt - dig up some greens. An increasingly time-constrained, cash-strapped and possibly politically correct public seems to be heeding Mark Twain's well-worn adage that "golf is a good walk spoiled". Golf club membership and financial support for the sport is on the slide. Gold club membership fell 20% in England between 2004 and 2013, according to England Golf, while total participation in golf in the UK, including 'nomadic golfers', declined by 19% between 2006 and 2014.