Editing Golf course (section)

===Municipal===
A municipal course is owned and managed by a local government body for the benefit of residents and visitors. Some of the historic Scottish golf courses, including [[St Andrews Links|St Andrews]] and [[Carnoustie Golf Links|Carnoustie]] fall into this category along with [[Bethpage State Park|Bethpage]] and [[Pebble Beach Golf Links|Pebble Beach]] in the US and many others of less renown. It is increasingly common for the management of municipal courses to be contracted out to commercial or other organisations or the course to be sold or shut down completely.<ref name = GCMNH >{{cite web|url = http://www.golfclubmanagement.net/2013/06/the-decline-of-municipal-golf-clubs-during-the-economic-downturn/|title = The decline of municipal golf clubs during the economic downturn|author = Harte, Nigel|date = 24 June 2014|publisher = Golf Club Management|access-date = 25 February 2015|archive-date = 2 May 2015|url-status = usurped|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150502024348/http://www.golfclubmanagement.net/2013/06/the-decline-of-municipal-golf-clubs-during-the-economic-downturn/}}</ref>