Grand plans to transform the North Adelaide park lands golf course into some kind of Caddyshack Country Club are currently hitting more of the rough than the fairway, writes Mike Smithson.

Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray and gopher-like characters from the 1980 Hollywood cult golf movie Caddyshack are missing, but others are rapidly taking their places.

Premier Peter Malinauskas is changing the face and texture of the park lands with his blunt one-wood.

With little warning, he’s pushing through dramatic legislation and will almost certainly have the numbers in both houses to get exactly what he wants for his $50 million LIV golf extravaganza.

So, what should we make of an overnight Instagram post from our jet-setting Lord Mayor, who’s trying to shore up COP31 for Adelaide, a global environment mega-drawcard which is also on the Premier’s must-do list?

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith is an ardent supporter of LIV golf, or is she?

Her official site endorses the words of Acting Lord Mayor Phil Martin with the blaring headline quote, “what’s been announced represents 15 to 20 percent of the Park Lands legislated out of council’s care and control.”

Under her official Lord Mayoral Insta-handle, it goes on to say that council has maintained and invested in the North Adelaide Golf Course and the surrounding park lands for more than a century.

“From the outset, the Council supported the State........

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