Golf resort in the rough as fees row flares

A TOP golf course builder who blockaded a tourist town’s championship course yesterday said he is prepared “to do time” to secure the €500,000 he is owed.

Mel Flanagan, a director of Longford-based Irish Golf Design, blocked the entrance to the Kelcar Developments-owned Blarney Golf Resort in Co Cork for several hours in a desperate bid to secure payment.

He and his workers used a tractor to prevent dozens of golfers from using the John Daly-designed course.