Brocket Hall latest – mass protest on the first tee!

As we reported last week, the new owners of Brocket Hall, the hotel and golf club in Hertfordshire which went into administration a year ago, have thrown out their 920 members. Now the fight back has begun.

The great revolt started yesterday at 11am when a group of angry members gathered on the first tee to protest.

“We have nowhere to go said Roger Feast speaking yesterday to The Times after he had had his membership cancelled. “I will chain myself to the gates if necessary; I will be the Emily Pankhurst of golf.”

Feast added: “They’ve removed the trophy boards. The names have all been taken from the members’ lockers; previous captains’ names have been removed.”

Without a club the course’s teams have been removed from their leagues and their handicaps are also at risk.

The club was previously run by German businessman Dieter Klostermann, who put the business into administration last year, after a protracted period of poor trading.

Klostermann’s company still kept on selling new memberships right up until two weeks ago when the new owners announced that they would not be honoured.

If that wasn’t bad enough, what has really got the members' goats is that when the old Director passed on the control to the new Director, that new Director’s name was one Mr. Dieter Klostermann, the previous owner.

He may have the backing of new Chinese investors, but there is genuine disgust and anger amongst the members that he is still involved.

We can’t see the original members lying down and taking it on the chin. There is already talk of legal action. According to The Times one Shahin Merali, a solicitor who paid £35,000 for a lifetime membership four years ago, is already speaking with other former members about legal action.

We think this one’s going to run and run. For more on our original story click here or on the image below.