My local club, Wynnum, is changing their course layout due to complaints about wayward balls off the 1st tee. The course has existed for over 100 years, and it has just been announced that the Par 4 first will become a Par 3 with immediate effect.
Granted, there is no way the landlocked course would be approved with tees and greens in their current locations were the course to be built today, but consider that the encroachment of houses has pushed up to the borders of the course boundaries over the past 100 years and not the other way around.
Does ozgolf think it is reasonable to have to change long-standing course layouts because of a few (mostly one) complainant?
Personally, people who buy houses backing on to golf courses only to complain about the golf course remind me of people who move into Fortitude Valley for the "vibe" and "culture" only to then make constant noise complaints, such as what happened with the XXXX Brewery as Milton gentrified from industrial to residential.