STAFF at a golf club have had to ask commuters roaming round in bushes on the course to leave because of fears it is being used as a gay sex hot-spot.

A lay-by on the A404 in Bisham next to the Temple End Golf Club has between 15 and 20 cars parked up during the day, while the owners are mysteriously rustling around in bushes.

A spokesman for the club said that various points in the sleepy village seemed to have turned into cruising points for those seeking gay sex.

He said: "Staff have caught men wandering around and have had to ask them to leave.

"The police carry out patrols but they cannot be there all the time."

He said they are now planning to thin out the area where many of the men seem to be walking so that it is no longer screened from passers-by.

The spokesman added: "It does not just affect us. There is a footpath nearby and there are families who stop in the lay-by so it's not very nice for them.

"It's appalling but all we can really do is be vigilant about the situation and make life difficult for them."

A police spokesman said that it was difficult to patrol an area which is technically private property and that indecent exposure laws are hard to enforce, but that they do keep an eye on the area.