Well! I'm off to buy a home on a golf course!

[cabmandone]

Wish me luck fellas! I think I've found my retirement plan.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/golf/family-sues-country-club-wins-nearly-dollar5-million-after-too-many-golf-balls-damaged-their-house/ar-AAWxEPn?li=BBnb7Kz

[recycled sixtie]

I am an avid fan of watching golf and playing golf. My sister in law and brother in law live next to a golf course. They occasionally get a broken window due to an errant golf ball. When that happens they phone the golf club and they send somebody to fix it pronto and free of charge.

Good luck with your search!

[L8Brakr]

Bovine excrement. Like purchasing a house next to the airport, and then suing over the noise. Or buying downwind from the landfill and suing over the smell. A family of Karens as been financially rewarded for their ability to whine and complain. Plant some significant trees and wait a few years.

Hey Cab.......make sure you buy a house on the right side of the fairway between 180 - 250 yards from the tee. The vast majority of average golfers are right-handed slicers!

[cabmandone]

Originally Posted by L8Brakr

Bovine excrement. Like purchasing a house next to the airport, and then suing over the noise. Or buying downwind from the landfill and suing over the smell. A family of Karens as been financially rewarded for their ability to whine and complain. Plant some significant trees and wait a few years.

Hey Cab.......make sure you buy a house on the right side of the fairway between 180 - 250 yards from the tee. The vast majority of average golfers are right-handed slicers!

That was high on the list but I'm thinking 1-200 yards. I'm gonna have to look for a place on a par 5 hole. You know they always over swing the drive on a par 5.

[Bill Douglas]

That's a whole new level of "Home and Income"

Around here home and income means an attached apartment you rent out as extra income. That's a much better level of income.

[zakthor]

You can't fire golf balls onto other peoples property. Into their house and back yard for years and years. The course should have just bought the house when it was for sale, or done something when the original requests were made.

Somehow the course found a mitigation once the law found fault. Too bad they can't reach into the golfers wallets, that'd make me giggle.

[cabmandone]

Originally Posted by zakthor

You can't fire golf balls onto other peoples property. Into their house and back yard for years and years. The course should have just bought the house when it was for sale, or done something when the original requests were made.

Somehow the course found a mitigation once the law found fault. Too bad they can't reach into the golfers wallets, that'd make me giggle.

My take is, buy a home with a lot adjoining a golf course and you deserve whatever comes your way. But I'm an eyes wide open kinda guy. I doubt many, if any, were launching a ball at their home on purpose. BUT! If you fine the golfer that would make more sense than fining the owners of the course.

Still, I think I need to find a home on a golf course. $5,000,000.00... not a bad return for a few balls flying at a house I bought for 750K.

[rockfan4]

700+ golf balls in their yard over 4 years.
The golf course moves the tee box for #15, no errant golf balls in the last month.
Sounds like a design problem, no matter how famous the designer was.

[cabmandone]

Originally Posted by rockfan4

700+ golf balls in their yard over 4 years.
The golf course moves the tee box for #15, no errant golf balls in the last month.
Sounds like a design problem, no matter how famous the designer was.

The course was there before the home according to the article. It was a developer problem and some really bad golfers apparently.

Plus, I get 5 million dollars AND 700 golf balls to sell! It's a win win baby!!

[p911dad]

I play a bit of golf with my buddies, maybe once or twice a week at different courses. I have never seen or heard of anyone aiming at a house or any off-course property. It is just not done. Also, good balls are maybe $36. a dozen, so no one wastes them, it's hard enough to stay in bounds or out of a hazard! We often remark about the idiots that want to abut a golf course and then post signs to stay off. As noted above the very worst place to put a house in on the right side from maybe 100 to 250 yards out from the tee. We played one course where some long suffering house was peppered with dents in the siding and plywood on a few windows - it was built close to the course and on the inside turn of a short dog-leg right. Probably got a good deal on the lot!

[cabmandone]

I'm a lefty so the homes to the right are safe! I used to tell my friends "watch for traffic" as I was teeing off on a hole that ran parallel with State Route 127

[A930Rocket]

We lived on a golf course, at the putting green. Fortunately our house was far enough back we did not get any golf ball hits. The kids always scoured the wet area between our house and the green and picked up hundreds of golf balls over the years.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by p911dad

I play a bit of golf with my buddies, maybe once or twice a week at different courses. I have never seen or heard of anyone aiming at a house or any off-course property. It is just not done. Also, good balls are maybe $36. a dozen, so no one wastes them, it's hard enough to stay in bounds or out of a hazard! We often remark about the idiots that want to abut a golf course and then post signs to stay off. As noted above the very worst place to put a house in on the right side from maybe 100 to 250 yards out from the tee. We played one course where some long suffering house was peppered with dents in the siding and plywood on a few windows - it was built close to the course and on the inside turn of a short dog-leg right. Probably got a good deal on the lot!

It seems this was the crux of the problem.

Golfers were aiming at the house but at the same time not.

Hole 15 is a dog leg and the t box was close enough to motivate players to try and hit over the tree line to save a stroke on the dog leg.

It’s why moving the t box seems to have mostly solved the problem.

Yes they bought next to a golf course so some errant balls are to be expected but the club also did not preserve enough buffer on their property to accommodate the type of play their course design encouraged.

[cabmandone]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

It seems this was the crux of the problem.

Golfers were aiming at the house but at the same time not.

Hole 15 is a dog leg and the t box was close enough to motivate players to try and hit over the tree line to save a stroke on the dog leg.

It’s why moving the t box seems to have mostly solved the problem.

Yes they bought next to a golf course so some errant balls are to be expected but the club also did not preserve enough buffer on their property to accommodate the type of play their course design encouraged.

That explains it! Trying to cut the corner but there's a house in the way.

[Norm K]

Originally Posted by p911dad

I have never seen or heard of anyone aiming at a house or any off-course property.

Given the ability of the vast majority of golfers, aiming at the house would likely result in a fair amount less damage.

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[L8Brakr]

Originally Posted by rockfan4

700+ golf balls in their yard over 4 years.
The golf course moves the tee box for #15, no errant golf balls in the last month.
Sounds like a design problem, no matter how famous the designer was.

Sure......now some other homeowner(s) who was/were smart enough not to buy their home in the corner of a dogleg are having balls flying at them when they never had a problem before.

[rockfan4]

A map might help.

[stomachmonkey]

What's really silly is what did it cost the club to move the T Box and what did it cost them by delaying moving it?

[cabmandone]

Hey... getting someone to do the work today is hard.

[KFC911]

Don't buy a house on the 18th green! Dodging those windmill blades gets old fast ...

Friend's wife was a caregiver for a very rich lil' old lady with dementia, etc. who lived on a local GC (Think small PGA course, birth of the ACC type place... old $$$). She was overjoyed whenever she found eggs in her back yard on occasion