Golf Course Hole Moved to Accommodate Coyotes

Pasadena officials have shortened the distance of the 10th hole at Brookside Golf Course in order to allow a family of coyotes to live there undisturbed.

The American Golf Corp., the private company that operates the city of Pasadena’s two 18-hole courses by the Rose Bowl, moved the 10th hole away from the area where a coyote family with several pups have been living in a drainage pipe.

Earlier last month, golf course officials decided to hire county agriculture department workers to shoot the coyotes. They killed two, but in the midst of the ensuing outcry, officials reversed that decision. They decided last week that the coyotes would not be relocated. “We’re going to leave the coyotes there and let nature take its course-- golf course, in this case,” said Steve McNall, executive director of the Pasadena Humane Society and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.