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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Morgan Ofori

‘Awful’: climate crisis threatens to sink historic north-east golf club

SallyAnn Gibson on the 5th hole at Alnmouth village golf club, which is under threat from coastal erosion.
Alnmouth village golf club said at least 25 to 30 yards of the course nearest the sea had been eroded. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Observer

For most golfers, the most damage a furious wind can do is to your handicap – and, if you are really unfortunate, your car windshield.

But visitors to Alnmouth village golf club in Northumberland have to contend with the prospect of storms and rising sea levels consigning the oldest nine-hole links course in the country to history.

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