Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly are among those who will receive an £85,000 windfall from the sale
Piers Morgan, Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly, former cabinet secretary Lord Gus O’Donnell, and the 754 other members of Wimbledon Park golf club have voted to sell their 120-year-old club to All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) for £65m.
The golf club members voted 82% in favour of selling the 30-hectare (73-acre) golf club to the world famous Wimbledon tennis championship, which has fought a decade-long battle to expand the Grand Slam tournament on to the neighbouring golf club’s land.
Related: The amateur golfers taking on the might of Wimbledon: ‘It’s like Brexit. It has split members’
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