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Le Golf Nationwide, host of the 2018 Ryder Cup, and the venue for the Olympic golf occasions in 2024 in Paris, has been attacked by a bunch of environmental activists.
Stories say that the inexperienced on the eighth gap of the Albatros course was broken with pickaxes on the night time of November 3, with the perpetrators leaving a collection of messages on the inexperienced, together with ‘220 km2 for golf programs, 0 km2 for biodiversity’ and ‘They construct golf programs, we wish forests’.
It isn’t the primary time that le Golf Nationwide, which is owned by the French Golf Federation, has been focused by environmental activists. Final 12 months noticed members of the UK-based Extinction Revolt motion harm the 18th inexperienced. On that event, they dug holes, planted bushes and left indicators denouncing the ecological affect of golf.
The membership’s administration mentioned that they’d reported the incident to the police, and that the course will stay open for play. The harm to the inexperienced is being repaired when the course closes on November 7 for weekly scheduled upkeep.
The FFG condemned ‘the act of vandalism’ and mentioned that ‘golf was an environmentally pleasant sport which contributes to the preservation of pure areas’.
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