Hollywood star Mark Wahlberg has thrown his voice behind the campaign to “save” Sydney’s Moore Park Golf Course.
The NSW government announced in October half of the public golf course would be seized and nine holes of the course would be turned into Sydney’s “central park” from 2026.
This means that up to 20 hectares of the public course will be repurposed in a bid to support an estimated 80,000 residents living within two kilometres of the Moore Park area by 2040.
Sydney’s Green Square urban renewal area is already home to 33,000 people.
The change will see more green space opened up to the general public, with grassroots sports and recreation being prioritised for the new “central park”.
Up until this point the 45 hectares of public land has been used as a golf course, where only paying golfers were given access.
A nine hole course will still remain at Moore Park, with…
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