Top-ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre singled out his fears for the golf club closest to his heart, closest to his home and where he honed his golf – Oban’s Glencruitten club.
It is also the much-loved clube where Doughie his father is one of two greenkeepers on the course that the MacIntyre house backs onto.
“Dad’s not working, it’s all shut down,” said MacIntyre and an Aberdeen Investment ambassador.
“So, it’s looking doom and gloom just now, but a lot of folk out walking dogs and stuff, which is sad to see when it’s such a good wee golf course.
“There’s a lot of courses that’s going to happen to. We’re such a small community and with so many different sports that the golf course isn’t there to make money, it’s there just to survive. That was through functions and all the visitors.
“Now this has happened it’s knocked it on the head and there’s no functions at all, anywhere. That was our main income at the club so now it’s just about battening down the hatches and trying to just hold out.”
Sadly, MacIntyre’s fears are many golf clubs around the globe amid this Coronavirus pandemic fears.
