Our street is full of potholes but we’ve come up with genius way to use them

POTHOLES on a high street are so bad that jokers have turned them into a crazy golf course.

And yesterday The Sun grabbed a potter — sorry, putter — to join them for a round on the not-so-fairway.

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Like an ever-growing number of roads across the country, the scarred 500-metre stretch in Malmesbury, Wilts, has around 50 holes, ranging in size from a few inches wide to several feet across.

Community volunteer Ben Thornbury, 18, chose a few and put up a fake roadwork sign reading: “High Street Crazy Potholes Golf Now Open”.

He said: “The potholes are a disgrace to the town, it looks like the moon. It’s not a good impression to visitors and certainly not good for vehicles.”

Fellow resident Ruth Strange, 63, said: “I’ve never seen it this bad.”

Kym Genare, 48, arrived with son Archie, ten and said: “It’s a nightmare, they’re everywhere.”

Play was interrupted when a small car scraped its exhaust

Last night Wiltshire councillor Caroline Thomas said: “There has been an increase in potholes across the country, not just in Wiltshire.

“We have recently been awarded an additional £3.6million from the Department for Transport and are looking at when works can be scheduled.”

The Sun told how a recent UK study showed that each week last year nearly two in three drivers hit a pothole.

Thirteen  million drivers said they have had vehicle damage, twice as many as a decade ago, with repairs totalling £1.7billion.

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