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Article: 'IT'S LIKE LIVING ON A DRIVING RANGE'.
- Article from:
- Newtonabbey Times (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- February 13, 2008
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A MALLUSK resident is urging Belfast City Council to swing into action to stop stray golf balls raining down on his family home.
James McAlister has lived in Rogan Wood, right next to the City of Belfast golf course, since November 2006.
The father of two refuses to let his children play in their own back garden because he says it is too dangerous.
He wants the Council to give the go ahead to erect a net to prevent golf enthusiasts' sliced shots going out of bounds.
"It's like living on a driving range," James told the Times. "If a golfer hits a ball off the tee with any movement at all towards the left it's heading towards houses. Golf ...