The entrance to the Manawatu Golf Club. Which also happens to have a Pokemon Go pokestop on it. The club is worried people might get hit by golf balls near the entrance.

A Palmerston North golf club is concerned that distracted Pokemon Go hunters are likely to catch a concussion as they venture onto the course.

Manawatu Golf Club general manager Michael Williams said they had noticed people lingering near their entrance, which is a pokestop - a landmark on the game. Some had even been wandering along the driveway into the carpark.

However the driveway into the club passes through one of the course's holes and Williams is concerned that distracted Pokemon Go players are venturing into the firing line.

Nicholas McBride The entrance as seen on the Pokemon Go screen, with the pokestop.

"Golf is being played as soon as you get to that gate, there are [golfers] coming down that hole fairly regularly."

He observed four teenagers walking down the driveway on Wednesday, staring at their phones.

Williams said he was concerned people new to the course might not check their surroundings.

FAIRFAX NZ A pokemon inside the golf course grounds.

"The ball can come in from a couple hundred metres away, non-golfers might not realise and think 'oh they're miles away'."

"As soon as they walk through they can come into the firing line."

"We don't want people to be hit by a golf ball travelling 200m through the air, it is going pretty quick."

He urged people to look for Pokemon somewhere else.

Shop assistant Guy Perry said he too had noticed more people wandering in off the street.

"You know what they are doing."

He had observed groups of people walking in or driving up the entrance way.

"People keep coming in to the entrance and parking, then they leave, then another car would come in and park and then leave.

"[Wednesday] there were four guys who walked in and you don't think anything of it, until you see them [on their phones]. You could tell they were not golfers."

He too was concerned about the safety of it.

"First of all it is a road, secondly it is intersecting with a golf hole."