{"id":21960,"date":"2013-08-17T01:23:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T23:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/gold-circle-throws-lifeline-to-royal-durban-golf-club\/"},"modified":"2013-08-17T01:23:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T23:23:21","slug":"gold-circle-throws-lifeline-to-royal-durban-golf-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/gold-circle-throws-lifeline-to-royal-durban-golf-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Circle throws lifeline to Royal Durban Golf Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=13707\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13707\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13707\" alt=\"Gold Circle throws lifeline. Photo: PA Wire \/ Press Association Images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/fc657_3408520334.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gold Circle throws lifeline. Photo: PA Wire \/ Press Association Images<\/p>\n<p>Horse racing group Gold Circle has offered R10 million for the cash-strapped Royal Durban Golf Club in a lifeline deal aimed at rescuing the course from possible closure.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter circulated yesterday, the captain of the golf club, Frans Kemper, urged its members to accept the racing group\u2019s deal above two other possible plans to be tabled at a special meeting on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Gold Circle acting chief executive, Michel Nairac confirmed the proposed deal yesterday, saying the purchase of the course would complement the R150m refurbishment to bring horse racing into line with the city\u2019s vision to make Durban a big events destination.<\/p>\n<p>Nairac said the golf club was \u201ctotally dependent\u201d on income from the Greyville racecourse to balance its books.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a nice agreement. But there is no news until they take it to their members. Then we would have to discuss it with the city. It will be a long process,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kemper said the deal was a positive move and for the betterment of Durban. He said the meeting on Monday was to address members\u2019 concerns and to give them all the facts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are some who are against it. But we believe this is very positive for Durban,\u201d he said. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Mercury<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more breaking Gold Circle news,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/tag\/gold-circle\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more breaking sporting news and views, visit MySport24 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySport24\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mysport24?ref=hl\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/former-gold-circle-editor-benson-guilty-of-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/fc657_194019281_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/former-gold-circle-editor-benson-guilty-of-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\">Former Gold Circle editor Benson guilty of fraud<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/gold-cup-shows-heart-of-gold-for-charity\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/fc657_185269426_80_801.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/gold-cup-shows-heart-of-gold-for-charity\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gold Cup shows heart of gold for charity<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/knight-to-remember-eyes-gold-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/fc657_187471719_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/knight-to-remember-eyes-gold-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\">Knight To Remember eyes Gold Cup<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/eff69_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold Circle throws lifeline. Photo: PA Wire \/ Press Association Images Horse racing group Gold Circle has offered R10 million for the cash-strapped Royal Durban Golf Club in a lifeline deal aimed at rescuing the course from possible closure. In a letter circulated yesterday, the captain of the golf club, Frans Kemper, urged its members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-21960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}