Most RAF Station Golf Courses are in fact just a small area of land set aside with a few fairways, tees and greens maintained by their members. My favourite was the one at RAF Woodhall Spa that was slotted in around the old Thor missile launch bases - if you managed to hit one then it put another 100yds on your drive from the tee!
This really is a storm in tee-cup (pun intended) and makes very little difference to the tax payer. They are normally mown as part of the Station grass-cutting contract (it still needs cutting, golf course or not!) in just the same way as Soccer, Cricket and Rugby pitches might be. Unfortunately this is typical Mirror dirge that is trying to drum up left-wing anger at the so-called ‘privileged classes’ - little do they know that the RAF Golf Assoc makes the sport accessible to the very lowest paid in the Service as the use of these golf courses costs a couple of Quid in green fees (that goes towards the Club membership maintaining the course after it has been cut (holes, flags, tees and some TLC)).
Thank you Mirror for inducing more ‘politics of envy’ that seeks to falsely divide the Country. Scandalous in its own right...