Over the golf course

Over The Golf Course ‘There is something a little liberating about letting your dog run off all over the putting greens on a golf course!’

A Book Of Maps recording the time between the sale and the redevelopment of the golf course

Introduction It has been a golf course since 1895, but at the start of 2012 I noticed it was closed, and for a couple of weeks people were trying to get a free game. Then it became an empty space in transition. It became my country park estate where I walked with my dog Cosmo. I drew maps of the walks we shared, the things we saw and some of the events that happened over there. It has been a place of day dreams and reflection and I am continuing to write a blog about walks and thoughts.

To read the blog (click here) One of the comments on the blog described it as the Truman Show saying that nothing happened over there, until I went there and strange characters with tattooed faces came out giving me the illusion of something that is not really true. A shout of ‘Action’, and the performance would begin.

The site was always going to be developed and it has taken about three years for things to have got as far as they have.

The flags have only recently been put up outside advertising that Redrow Homes have acquired the land for residential development (subject to planning). I have even drawn my own Guerrilla Master Plan for an imaginary community development of the site, which was fun to draw.

Building works have not begun and I will continue to record what happens over there.

This is a book of maps or a Time Atlas for this place.

Left; 18 flags for 18 holes

The Guerrilla Master Plan