Starting December 16th and continuing (with a short break in-between) until February 16th, Braintree Golf Course will open select holes up to hunters. Anyone that has a hunting license will be welcomed onto the course to hunt the overly large population of geese.

With the well kept grass and multiple ponds, golf courses are an idea setting for geese. This particular golf course facilitates up to four hundred geese each day. They leave behind:

“As much as two to three pounds (of waste) per day from a mature adult goose, so yeah, when you multiply that times a couple hundreds to 400 geese a day, you can just imagine,” Braintree Parks Superintendent William Hedlund said. “Golfers’ shoes become covered and coated. Their clubs are covered, and the ball is rolling and gets stuck in it,” Brown said.

Other methods have been attempted, but Brown insists that hunting is the only feasable method to control the population.

“You need to have the hunt because they do have anywhere from 10 to 12 goslings a piece, and the goslings, like their parents, do not migrate. They stay here, and the population multiplies,” Brown said.

“If I had the solution of controlling the goose population, it would be like hitting the lottery. I couldn’t count the money that it would drive,” Hedlund said.

Most golfers know what a pain it is to play around geese and the things that they leave behind. I’ve left golf courses, with no intentions to return after having to put up with such situations.

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