Golf Club facing six figure damages payout

Posted on Monday, 7th November 2011

Damages have still to be finalised but a figure of around £400,000 had been agreed previously by lawyers and Niddry Castle Golf Club, in West Lothian, will be liable for approximately £120,000 of that.

Judge Lord Brailsford ruled that the club’s liability was for its failure to erect proper warning signs on the course.

He said that the golf club should have erected signs alerting path users to potential hazards.

'Experts considered that signs would have been a proper and effective way to draw risk to the attention of golfers and, moreover, that such signs, had they existed, would have been likely to have been heeded,' he said.

'I accordingly form the view that the failure to provide signs either at the 18th tee or in the area between the 6th green and 7th tee was a failure of duty'.