It’s far from done and dusted, as far as Los Moriscos golf course goes, in Motril – in other words, it could still lose the eight holes before the month is out.

The land on which the eight holes sit presently belongs to Hacienda; an entity whose function is parallel to Dracula’s, and everything hangs on the next 24 hours.

At the moment, the club is using all the holes but if the sentence is not favourable, then they will be fenced off and their use is lost to the club.

Hacienda wants the club to buy it, but they haven’t got the money. The Town Hall is acting as the mediator and they are worried sick that the municipality will lose this tourist attraction.

You see, it is not just a case of losing half the holes (after all, Los Moriscos used to be a 9-hole course and people used it a lot back then) because the club owner said, we believe, that if the club loses the holes, he’ll throw in the towel.

So the Mayor, Flor Almón, is trying to get local businesses to club together (no pun intended) and buy the damned holes. The Mayor beseeched (good word, that) Hacienda to cede the land so that it can be used for public use (tourist attraction) but Hacienda just laughed like PMS-beset Christopher Lee and said, “no.”

The eviction had been scheduled for last June (26th) but it was stopped in the last moment thanks to a court order. This freeze was to give a margin to find somebody to buy the plot off Hacienda.

But nobody has come forward, and yes, I started not only a sentence with a conjunction, but a whole bloody paragraph – anarchy, no less! Time runs out on the 26th – eek! Yes, tomorrow!

But the Mayor had one more cartridge in the breach, which is that Hacienda should offer some pretty active terms to the club owner for him to able to find the money to rent the land off them. For instance, the payments start off small but increase as the club starts to make money.

Now you would think that a public entity, such is Hacienda, exists to serve the welfare of the general public, rather than to wickedly stamp all over it. Local businesses need all the help they can get to generate profit and provide taxes so, quite simply, why is Hacienda so intent on sinking the Motril tourism sector and thus strangle their own tax collections?

(News: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)