Posted on 12/05/2017 10:11:05 PM PST by nickcarraway
They've been an issue in North Texas for years. Farmers and ranchers have had their hands full with herds of feral hogs. Increasingly, they're being spotted in many less-open areas.
On any golf course, there are certain things considered to be a hazard.
“Sand traps. Water. Apartments,” soughed Clint Hollandsworth.
The golfer from Denton has hit them all, at Timberlinks Golf Club. But lately, he and others have noticed something else.
“Right up the left side of number two, it was torn up really bad,” said Hollandsworth.
While the challenging course rolls through hills and woods through The Timberlinks at Denton apartments, the patch of rough just off the fairway, near the woods looks exactly that way: rough.
“It looks like it's been plowed,” said Hollandsworth. “Grounds all torn up from where they've been rooting around."
Feral hogs don't usually come out during the day. But they do at night, and they often leave a mess. Herds of them have been captured on camera, rooting for grubs and insects. Neighbors say the feral hogs follow trails from Lewisville Lake up into Denton, and stay mainly in wooded areas near the course, on private property.
One issue in getting rid of the feral hogs, hunters cannot shoot them with guns. It's against the law in Denton city limits. Course workers have tried trapping them, but so far that has had little impact. Pesticides, which control those insects, have been somewhat effective, say golfers.
Management at Timberlinks was not allowed to comment on the feral hog issue. When there is damage, course employees frequently head out before golfers arrive to minimize the impact, which has been largely contained to areas of rough – near the woods, and away from fairways and greens.
But on this picturesque course, the unwelcome hazards -- remain.
Carry a rifle as your 10 iron.
Have Texans all forgotten how to bbq? I’m not seeing the problem.
Management at Timberlinks was not allowed to comment on the feral hog issue.
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What? Did the hogs make them sign a confidentiality agreement?
Let them stop golfers from their game. The city will reverse it's no guns ordinances.
Mueller and Nancy Pelosi rutting for “Russian collusion” evidence?
“Hey Leroy, hand me my .308.”
At least she is consistent. She just reacts in emotion, and doesn’t think about things at all.
Hogs are less annoying than golfers, so let’s just give the course to them.
I was gonna ask my caddy for the .50 Beowulf.
I have an idea for a golf course senior living community. Cluster housing lining the fairways. Assisted living staff in golf carts to tend to residents. And then burial plots with flat bronze grave markers on the course. Cemeteries and golf courses are the two biggest wastes of land I can fix by making them uni-purpose.
“So I got that going for me, which is nice.”
Bobby Joe, if you got a sportin’ hair on ya ***, ya’ll use that old SKS with no matchin’ serial numbers.
An’ this old boy bearin’ down on us, he got tusks longa than mah middle fingahs.
I’m thinking there must have been a 19th century British golf links called “Feral Hogs.”
A player who encounters a feral hazard and successfully terminates said hazard with extreme prejudice will be allowed a 2 stroke deduction from (his/her/undecided) score.
I live in Denton and know each member of the City Council. There’ll be no change to the no-guns ordinance. It makes too much sense.
In the seminal apocalyptic work One Second After, the local golf course is indeed repurposed as a cemetery to cope with all the dead people, who were dying in droves.
I blame North Texas Univ for the lefty-wing nutters running things there. . .(I live in Flower Mound).
I agree. They just seem to hang around after graduation.....or flunking out. Whichever
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