Meet The Geese-Policing Pups That Are Trained To Clean Up Golf Courses
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- Category: Inside Golf
- Published: 2021-02-12
In the early 1990s, David Marcks was working as the assistant superintendent at Fairview Country Club, a private course in Connecticut that was not exclusive enough to keep 600 Canada geese off its grounds.
The birds did many things that bad guests do. They tore up turf, ate like gluttons and ― this was the clincher ― relieved themselves abundantly in indiscreet locations.
Ornithological fun fact: The average adult goose produces one-and-a-half pounds of droppings per day.
“It was like playing golf in a litter box,” Marcks says.
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