I never understood why anyone would want a house on a golf course, having to worry about golf balls hitting the house, or having to worry about getting hit with a golf ball in the backyard.
We live on a former golf course. While it was functioning, it was great. We live in a smaller community and knew many of the players, so it was wonderful to see them, many of them older veterans of WWII, every day out on the course. The golf club doubled as a community center and restaurant and bar for the locals, and it was the heart of our neighborhood. The course shut down over 3 yrs ago. Many of the residents are cutting the grass on what was the golf course now. We don’t have water issues, so the grass remains green. Now we all use it as an informal recreation area and park. We are surrounded by federal land, national parks and wildlife land trust lands, so the local deer population has grown exponentially. Not sure what will happen with the land eventually, but many of us have gotten together with plans to try to fight off development.