US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau has urged the native authority that operates Dalmuir to maintain the municipal course on the north-west outskirts of Glasgow open.
The general public-run course’s future will likely be debated by West Dunbartonshire Council at a funds assembly on Wednesday night.
Dalmuir may very well be closed fully, diminished to 12 holes or stay at 18 however with an increase in membership charges and inexperienced charges.
Greater than 3,500 folks have signed a petition urging the authority to avoid wasting the course whereas the SNP group within the Labour-minority council has additionally backed the marketing campaign to maintain Dalmuir open.
Dalmuir was threatened with closure final yr and the council says it prices greater than £100,000 a yr to subsidise the expenditure to run the course.
Lengthy-time tour caddie Craig Connelly, who lives close to Dalmuir, shared a video by DeChambeau on X throughout which the two-time US Open champion emphasises the impression golf can have on a neighborhood.
“I am right here to let you know how vital a public golf course is to the ecosystem, not solely simply golf normally, however the neighborhood,” mentioned the 31-year-old American.
“Typically folks do not realise the impression of golf and what it’s for a neighborhood, whether or not it is character improvement, private progress, studying extra about your self or household improvement.
“If you do not have golf programs like Dalmuir and a neighborhood like Dalmuir, it is troublesome to proceed to develop not solely only a sport, however a neighborhood.
“This golf course is tremendous vital and I hope folks can perceive how vital it’s to exit and signal that petition and preserve this course alive and to make a special future for generations to come back.”
