Politicians get it wrong on municipal golf … again

The unfortunate trend of elected officials trying to impose their political will on a city’s municipal golf courses has reached Hamilton, Ont. Again. A review of the Steel City’s two courses at Chedoke Golf Club — Hamilton also owns and operates King’s Forest Golf Club — has been undertaken with an eye towards the potential repurposing of part(s) of those courses into park space. The costly review — the second for Hamilton’s municipal courses in three years — comes almost nine years after Maureen Wilson, Hamilton Ward 1 city councillor, first put public golf contraction on her political agenda. She…