Chinese owners’ plans for golf club put talk of asserting UK ‘sovereignty’ into context,and are a reminder that a rampant free market eventually affects wealthy voters tooHave you been following the row over the future of Wentworth, the very grand golf club in affluent Surrey? No, or I don’t play golf either,but stick around. The new Chinese owners possess plans for the 18-gap course that put foolish Eurosceptic talk about asserting British “sovereignty” into a sensible context. As the Guardian reported at the time, Wentworth was sold by Richard Caring (the self-made entrepreneur’s cuttings suggests he may deserve Tatler’s snooty “Blofeld” label) to a Chinese consortium misleadingly called Reignwood Investments in 2014.
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Source: theguardian.com