Horses wreck pitch and putt course ahead of competition

HORSES have run amok causing extensive damage to one of the country’s top pitch and putt courses just days before a major national competition.

At least three animals ran wild through St Anne’s 18-hole championship course, located next to Our Lady’s Hospital in Shanakiel on Cork’s northside, over the last two nights. It is believed they ran from the Hollyhill area.

They cut up manicured greens on the course which was last year voted the best of the Pitch and Putt Union of Ireland’s 119 affiliated courses.