Golfers on the course today told Star News they were filled yesterday about 3pm.
The course has been closed since Wolfbrook Property Group purchased the 18-hole-course just north of Christchurch to turn into a residential development.
Upmarket housing was built around and near the course - one of Canterbury's best - after it opened in 2009. Cricketing great Sir Richard Hadlee built a house there in 2010.
Secured creditors are owed more than $6 million, the liquidators' report said.
Golfers today told Star News they believed the holes had been filled to prevent the closed course being played on.
Concrete has been pulled out of many of the holes. Three regular golfers of the course today quipped it was the work of "concrete eating ducks."
The residential development has been widely opposed by locals, the Waimakariri District Council and Waimakariri MP Matt Doocey.
Close to 16,000 people have signed a petition to prevent the controversial housing development.
In a statement this afternoon, Wolfbrook said:
"The former Pegasus Golf Course closed on 1st June following the public sale to Wolfbrook Residential. There has been continued unauthorised use of the former course despite clear signage which has also been vandalised and removed.
"The land was once a private golf course accessible to members and green fee payers. It has never been a public amenity nor is there any entitlement for ongoing public access. The works being undertaken are intended to prevent the continued unauthorised use of Wolfbrook’s land.
"Wolfbrook as the landowner pays all costs to maintain the land and the ponds that are within it. The golf course is closed; it is privately owned land and as such it is not appropriate for people to continue using it as though it is a public recreational facility.”
On learning Wolfbrook instructed that the holes be filled, one of the golfers Star News spoke to said: "I guess we see the concrete in the hole from my point of view as almost childish.
"We're just out to have a good walk in the sun and hit a few golf balls and it helps if there's some holes there that you can put them into."
The golfers agreed the move from Wolfbrook was a slight against Pegasus residents.
"It's sort of pettiness. If they want to protect their brand and if they want to have a good name with their investors, I would have thought they'd be encouraging us to play and perhaps look after the golf course in the meantime until this is sorted out legally," the same golfer said.
Yesterday, a member of the Pegasus Residents Facebook group, Roberto Bolanos, posted he was driving past the 17th hole when he saw a truck arrive on the fairway next to the green.
"I was curious as to what they were doing there so I stopped to talk. Apparently they were contracted to pull out the markers and fill up the holes.
"They were apologetic but were just doing that they were instructed,” he posted.
