A posh golf club is having to remodel its course after stray balls kept smashing into car windows and narrowly missing nearby workers.

Thorney Park Golf Club in Iver, Bucks has been granted planning permission to change the 16th hole and replace the 10th by Bucks Council.

The club applied for permission to amend the course after golf balls damaged cars parked outside a sustainable energy firm which sits just beyond the 16th hole.

The stray balls have smashed a hole in the rear windscreen of a luxury Porsche Taycan GTS, cracked the front windscreen of a parked car and dented the door of another.

In its planning application, Thorney Park Golf Club, which can charge up to £1,599 for an annual membership, said it had taken steps to prevent the balls coming off the course.

However they added that the healthy and safety concerns had ‘come to a head’ with complaints lodged following damage to the cars and risk of ball strikes to staff at Gridserve.

They said: “Golf balls are hard objects travelling at high speeds. They cause damage to both property and cause injury to people which can be serious injuries.”

“From the very early days of opening the course, the risk of balls going into neighbouring property was identified.

“Conifer trees were planted and high netting installed to help protect the boundary until the trees grew to a suitable height.

“The trees have now matured and offer a fair protection screen but this is proving not enough.”

Thorney Park Golf Club has also received an increasing number of complaints about balls being hit into the neighbouring property at the 10th hole.

To address the problems, the club will rebuild the 10th hole at a different part of the course and amend the position of the 16th hole.