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Posted on 04/24/2022 4:55:23 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Fewer idiots than in California though.
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Stupid is, is stupid does.
Usually when you buy a house, any negatives must be disclosed to the prospective buyers. In this case, proximity to the golf course is both obvious and viewed by most as a value adding feature. Surely the buyers must have wondered why the house was more expensive than others. Reminds me of people who buy next to airports and raceways and then complain about the noise.
I know someone who owns a house that backs up to a golf course.
But there’s a belt of trees between them and the gold course and nobody is teeing off towards their home. So getting clobbered by golf balls is never an issue.
It can work as the view will always be nice, and you don’t have to worry about the neighbors being rowdy at night.
In this case, the golf course could have taken measures earlier to change the direction people are teeing off in. OTOH, they were there first and the owners could have put up a net to block the balls.
“To me only an idiot would buy a house next to a golf course.”
We have a house on the 16th hole of a golf course on Hilton Head. I’ve yet to see a ball land in the yard.
“The public course adjacent to a busy road near me has a high net...”
A golf course in Maryland I used to drive by had the same setup. Don’t know how expensive it was, but the course was owned, I believe, by the University of Maryland so taxpayers probably funded it.
Considering that none of these balls made it down the fairway, I’m thinking most of them were mine...
First World Problems.
In my neck of the woods houses near the golf course are considered premium properties. My wife informs me, however, that if you own such a house, you must take out a special insurance policy designed to replace any windows which might get broken by errant golf balls.
I was on a business trip. The colleague I was with at the convention had rented a convertible. One night on the way to dinner, we drove past the golf course. I got hit on the shoulder by a golf ball that flew into me while we were driving at 35 mph.
I guess I could be a millionaire now. Since I wasn’t golfing I didn’t have any hold harmless agreement with the golf course.
Not to mention keeping one's balls in their BVD's. But I digress.....
Both states have attained critical mass when it comes to idiocy.
Golf. An egregious misuse of a perfectly good rifle range.
Well put.
#metoo
God healed me from golf.
The only thing I ever hit was the caged tractor driving around picking up balls at the range.
I’ve seen houses on golf courses where the owners put nets up to stop golf balls from coming on the property.
Akin to building/buying a house with a 30 year-old Nationals drag strip on the other side of the tree line, then demand it be shut down because of noise.
The trauma obviously didn’t interrupt their sex life.
We lived on a golf course on Maui. Sometimes golfers would break our sliding glass doors. They’d walk up, apologize, and throw money at us. No biggie. The view and the quiet was worth it.
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