Officials at Dumfries & Galloway golf club have condemned as 'mindless' an attack on their course last week which left the seventh green full of divots and a nearby fence wrecked.

Some of the damage to the seventh green

The Daily Record reported that lots of divots were gouged out of the turf in the attack which appears to have been carried out overnight last Saturday before being discovered by staff at 7.30am the next morning.

Deputy head greenkeeper Steven Carmichael, 38, is quoted by the paper saying, "It’s completely mindless damage and very frustrating for us and the club as it is time-consuming for us to rectify.

“We’ve been getting damage on other areas of the course with flags and rakes from bunkers going missing. Last week we had kids build a bonfire on the course and we repaired that as well.

“It’s been an ongoing issue for us this season but it’s been quite bad recently.”

He added: “It appears to be a golf club that’s been used to hack divots into the ground. We don’t know who or why someone has done it but it’s very disappointing.

“The green is near the road so it would have taken less than five minutes to do all of this damage.

“We’ve had to move the green just now to a temporary one but it’s not ideal conditions to try and fix it. It’s going to take a while.”