What's a "reasonable" number of balls?
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If you live on and/or next to a golf course, your house is going to be hit by golf balls. That’s just how it works.
However, one Massachusetts couple that lives on a golf course is suing the golf club that owns the golf course because their house, on a golf course, is hit by too many golf balls. Seriously.
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As a golfer, my position is that the golfer should pay.
Believe it or not, my understanding is that is not the legal position in most places.
As a homeowner on the golf course, I made sure that my house is unlikely to get hit, although it might get hit once or twice per year and I'll get a few dozen balls per year in my yard. I actually changed the initial lot for my house after I saw how close it was to a likely landing area.
We have owners who are upset about balls in their yard that is in an obvious landing zone. Idiots.
There were homeowners who built homes right off the end of the runway at the airport where I worked. Surprise, those owners didn't like airplane noise.
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If you live on and/or next to a golf course, your house is going to be hit by golf balls. That’s just how it works.
However, one Massachusetts couple that lives on a golf course is suing the golf club that owns the golf course because their house, on a golf course, is hit by too many golf balls. Seriously.
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@George-K said in What's a "reasonable" number of balls?:
What's a "reasonable" number of balls?
I've always figured 2 is the magic number.
@jon-nyc said in What's a "reasonable" number of balls?:
@George-K said in What's a "reasonable" number of balls?:
What's a "reasonable" number of balls?
I've always figured 2 is the magic number.
Took you long enough...
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Well, thanks to about 20 seconds of White Pages (their name and address) and Google Maps, let's see what's really going on.
Shocker, their house is quite vulnerable since they sit next to a dog-leg left hole where normally someone would hit their tee shot (yellow lines) and then hit towards the green with their 2nd shot. Whereas I bet many people (including me) would try to fly it over the corner of the trees (and their house) to get close to the hole (blue line). Yes, the article speaks to this.
Agree with Copper. Owners who buy a home without realizing what happens on a daily basis in their backyard... idiots. Heck, when we bought our home, I spent a half-day just hanging out in the neighborhood to see if my house had any weird flight paths over it (it didn't), things like that.
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As a golfer, my position is that the golfer should pay.
Believe it or not, my understanding is that is not the legal position in most places.
As a homeowner on the golf course, I made sure that my house is unlikely to get hit, although it might get hit once or twice per year and I'll get a few dozen balls per year in my yard. I actually changed the initial lot for my house after I saw how close it was to a likely landing area.
We have owners who are upset about balls in their yard that is in an obvious landing zone. Idiots.
There were homeowners who built homes right off the end of the runway at the airport where I worked. Surprise, those owners didn't like airplane noise.
I have to hand it to you. You figured out how to get free golf balls and have the convenience of a golf course all in one. Being the determined golfer you maintain you are, that was the smart choice.
As the saying goes…..location, location, location.
