Golf Courses
Unfortunately, your expensive well-maintained lawns and open spaces offer an easy and constant food supply, making it an attractive habitat for rabbits to live and breed
Our aim is to provide a service that reduces damage, costs and concerns on local course owners, without affecting members
By reducing the rabbit populations to a sustainable levels, and though leant prey behaviour which encourages rabbits to be wary of moving about in the open greens where they can cause significant damage.
Though this close management, rabbits are more likely to stay in areas where they feel safe and can find food and shelter without predations or disturbance moving to safer, quieter areas within the same environment and away from greens and fairways to more rough and hidden corners of your highly maintained course
As a business the conditions of your fairways and greens reflect on the prestige and reputation of your course and directly affect member numbers and income
Ranging from about £150k to £1m per year, Maintenance costs can soon mount up in an effort to keep courses in pristine condition. Ensuring that no damage comes to this investment should be key to any operating strategy to help minimize both the costs to repair these assets and protect the reputation of the course for its members end their experience.
However unfortunately the common wild rabbit as well as other mammals thrive on these meticulously kept fairways and greens due to Golf courses providing a rich variety of grass and vegetation, which rabbits find ideal for grazing.
Abundant Food Sources: Golf courses provide a rich variety of grass and vegetation, which rabbits find ideal for grazing. The well-maintained lawns and open spaces offer an easy and constant food supply, making it an attractive habitat for them to live and breed
Suitable Habitat: Golf courses often feature a mix of open areas, roughs, and areas with dense vegetation or shrubs, providing shelter and cover for rabbits. The lack of natural predators on most golf courses further contributes to their thriving populations.
Minimal Human Disturbance: Golf courses tend to have low human activity, particularly in early mornings or late evenings when rabbits are most active. This gives them a sense of safety, allowing them to forage without the fear of being disturbed or hunted.
Ideal Terrain for Burrowing: The landscape of golf courses, which often includes soft, well-drained soil, is ideal for rabbit burrows. These burrows are used for nesting and protection, allowing rabbits to easily establish colonies on golf courses.
Mild Climate: Golf courses typically maintain a consistent environment, with grass that stays green and grows year-round. This climate is favourable for rabbits to find food and shelter regardless of the season.
From burrows to divots and bald patches, left unchecked Rabbits and other pests can cause significant and ongoing damage and increasing costs
Night Activity
Hunting quarry that damage your greens is carried out at night to minimize impact on your members and to coincide with the active time of the quarry, Rifles will be moderated to reduce the signature of the shots and avoid any concerns from members, neighbours or public.
“No Foot Print” Principle
PWC operate a No footprint principle, meaning we intend where possible to leave no indication of our activities, ensuring we remove as standard all equipment, casings and quarry before the morning members hit the tee’s. Its like we were never there!
Compliance
Hunting activities will only be carried out in compliance of your rules and any legal laws/regulations, PWC operate a safety 1st, policy and that includes working with you to complete any Risk assessments or H&S documentation needed to support your H&S systems and compliance
Communication and Cooperation
Nothing is done without communicating our presence first when operating on your premises ensuring you know who is on your land,
Security
Having an extra set of eyes on your land is never a bad thing especially when those eyes have the latest in night vision capabilities. To support your business as a standard we will work with you to support the security of your site and communicate anything out of the ordinary or of concern to your point of contact
Respect and Prestige
Although we intend on generally not being seen, that on occasion we may be in public or member areas and understand that the general dress code of clubs may differ from that of professional hunting. With this in mind we will work with you to ensure that if any rules or dress codes are required, we collaborate in the best way with you to avoid conflict or breach of site rules
Professionalism and confidentiality
We take our activity seriously, and respect concerns people have about firearms, and hunting. Only insured experienced, and authorized people (by you) will be allowed to operate on your land, our activities will not be made public or shared on social media and your company name will only be used for references with prior agreement by yourselves