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At Luke’s Place Lockyer there are a few intellectually disabled people interested in golf, and as I’ve been watching it occurrred to me that the supervisors shouldn’t let them hit the ball in the air as they’ll never know when a car will drive along at the wrong moment as a golf ball that has gone over the fence can do anything like distract the driver from their driving or put a crack in the driver’s windscreen.

I also spoken to my parents about it and they agree with me that being allowed to hit balls high is a danger if it goes over the fence. And I have actually mentioned to the supervisor that people should hit the ball low or put the ball instead and as the possible danger hasn’t occured to the supervisors yet I think that I might approach a supervisor and bring it up.

But like I’ve already said we’ll never know when a car will come along at the wrong moment, and I’ve heard how dangerous throwing rocks at cars and trucks can be and so imagine what a golf ball can do?

I think that the intellectually disabled should only put the ball along the ground when doing it at the centre and save hitting the golf ball in the air when the supervisors take them to a real golf course as it’ll be a lot safer doing it there.