Letter: Golfing in the jungle

Sunday 25 April 1993 19:02 EDT

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Sir: Good luck to the World No-Golf Day and the Global Network for Anti- Golf Course Action ('When golf is more bane than game', 22 April).

Last August I was in Sarawak and went to visit the Mulu National Park to see the wonderful limestone caves and rock formations. As I went up- river my intense pleasure in the trip was almost destroyed. I asked the guide about some construction work that was going on and was told that a Japanese hotel was being built; on the other side of the river the jungle was to be cut down for a golf course. This was at some distance from the nearest town and so the small airstrip was to be enlarged to bring in the Japanese golfers.

Yours faithfully,

JUDITH ROUTH

Fakenham

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