Thank Britain for a golf course

When one considers the number and frequency of letters that have and are being written against the proposal to build a second golf course in the Maltese islands in recent years, first regarding that proposed at Verdala and now that at Ghajn Tuffieha, it is very difficult to understand how that at Marsa ever came to be built.

I have no doubt that all those who oppose the construction of another golf course in Malta or one at Gozo, or any one anywhere for various reasons, such as the extent of land required, the amount of water consumption, the garigues, the different shades of greenery or the spread of pesticides, would have brought forth such or similar objections and probably many more, had they had the opportunity to do so on the construction of a golf course in such an industrial zone.

One jumps to the conclusion that, for us golfers, the arrival of the British Forces in Malta at the turn of the 19th century was as providential, in sporting terms, as was the shipwreck of St Paul in Malta, in spiritual terms, in 60 AD. The Royal Malta Golf Club is, indeed, indebted to the royalty of the UK!