A golf course in South Buckinghamshire is set to be remodelled after stray balls smashed car windows and narrowly missed people.

Thorney Park Golf Club in Iver was granted planning permission for its proposals by Buckinghamshire Council this week.

The club, which is based off Thorney Mill Road, will make changes to the 16th hole and replace the 10th hole to ‘address health and safety issues’.

Pictures submitted as part of its planning application showed that stray golf balls had smashed a hole in the rear windscreen of a luxury Porsche Taycan GTS and also cracked the windscreen and dented the door of other cars.

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The vehicles were parked at the offices of sustainable energy firm Gridserve, which sits just beyond the northeastern boundary of the golf course at the 16th hole.

The club’s plans stated: “The health and safety issue has come to a head with the property owner lodging complaints to the club following damage to cars and potential risk of ball strikes on staff and visitors to their Gridserve headquarters.

“Golf balls are hard objects travelling at high speeds. They cause damage to both property and cause injury to people which can be serious injuries.”

Thorney Park Golf Ltd said the club was also receiving an increasing number of complaints of balls being hit into the neighbouring property at the 10th hole.

To address the problems, the club will build a new 10th hole at a different part of the course and realign the 16th hole.

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