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Of all the dangers a golf course could face, the recycle bin parking incident was not exactly on the Skylink scorecard in Buchanan Fields, California.
For business, which is East Bay’s open nine-hole course, the biggest drama of the season is not from bunkers or blown-out putts.
It comes from two parking cars at the far corner of the lot. There, weekly rendezvous transformed the family fairway into a full-fledged soap opera location.
Last week, a spicy Instagram post from the course lit up social media.
“I decided to meet every week with my late 30s wife in my black car doing secret events and a little silver car man who decided to meet every week in the right corner of the Skylink parking lot…
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Skylinks Golf posted the message on Instagram in April 2025, publicly calling for alleged incidents that occur every week behind a parking lot. (@skylinksgolf via Instagram)
Posting without a name, its dull PSA, filled with meaning, quickly went viral, garnering stocks, memes and speculation from curious commenters and suspicious spouses from the Bay Area and beyond.
“We’re a family golf course, not Jerry Springer’s family destruction zone,” Post said, “If it happens again, you drop the footage and see all hell unleashed.”
In an exclusive interview with golf course owner Fox News Digital, the New Zealand native who simply “Kiwi” went to confirmed that the posts were very realistic, the footage was present, and no, this is not a marketing stunt.
“We’re a small community course in Concord, not a drive-through hookup spot for con artists,” Kiwi said Deadpan. “This isn’t the kind of hole-in-one we encourage.”
According to Kiwi, staff began to notice patterns on the same car, on the same day and on the same corner of the lot about two months ago.
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“You don’t park behind you and you don’t park to play the quick round,” Kiwi said. “There is no reason to be near a recycle bin, unless you get off the cardboard box.
The maintenance crew, who began work around 5am, routinely found black and silver cars pulling one after another.
“One of us finally said, ‘We’re going here again – an early bird smash session in the car park.”
Until it wasn’t, it became a running joke.
“It’s a family space. I have two daughters. The kids are playing under a pomegranate tree 20 feet from where this is going. At a certain point, it’s just gross. Go to a hotel across the street.
Things got even more troublesome when Skylinks posted their PSA. The post went viral and the DMS was flooded.
“We started getting messages from people saying, ‘Hey, I think I know who this is. Please send me the footage.’ No, that’s not what we’re doing here,” Kiwi said. “We’re not here to destroy people’s lives. We just want them to stop using our parking lots.
His wife drove a black car and one man contacted the course because he “wanted to do so.”
The sun rises above the Skylink in Buchanan Fields, Concord, California. This is a public course that has recently gone viral after the owner warned the scammers to leave the lot. (@skylinksgolf via Instagram)
“That’s when I found out that this really exploded,” Kiwi laughed.
Despite all the caution, Kiwi says the footage will remain trapped. “We have the footage. Yes, it’s very clear what’s going on. But no, we haven’t released it. This is still a family business and not an episode of Dateline.”
Still, the viral fame is attracting new attention to Skylinks, a public course with its own comeback story.
Once nearly closed, the course was revived by the Kiwi after it was purchased over a year ago. Since then, he has tripled the business and transformed it into a hub of thriving communities, he said.
“We consider ourselves a community club, not a country club,” Kiwi said. “It’s full of people learning to play, local families and people who grab lunch and hit a bucket ball.”
Green views of Skylinx in Buchanan Fields, Concord, California during sunset. The public nine-hole course attracted the attention of the virus in April 2025 after calling allegations of the incident in a parking lot. (@skylinksgolf via Instagram)
Kiwi, who was originally from New Zealand and married an American, personally learned how to play golf on Skylinks and fell in love with the course before buying it.
The tone of the post was cheeky, but their message is serious. Skylinks has seen curious newcomers trying to park near the now overflowing dumpster for photo shoots, but Kiwi hopes the virus’s attention fades and the lot on his back will be empty.
And to those still trying to turn a nine-hole golf course into a lane for lovers?
Kiwi has one general advice: “Put a hole in the course, not in our parking lot.”
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However, specifically, there was a bit of extra to the Kiwi.
“I know who you are. I don’t know why you chose our parking lot. But what I know is that I have a very specific footage.
“If you check in to the hotel 100 yards away and leave my property, it’s over. I won’t look for you, I won’t chase you. But once you return to the trash can in the parking lot again, I’ll release the footage – and it’s a game.
The channeling of the film “Taked” may be a tongue-like thing, but the message is seriously dead. Please connect to another location.
