However, as stated later: "In the meantime, the country club has reconfigured the tee box for the 15th hole, and the Tenczars say it has been months since they’ve seen a golf ball on their property. "
My daughter lives on a golf course. Her husband is the head pro. It’s fun to hang out in her swimming pool in the summer and critique bad shots as golfers come over to retrieve balls.
common sense to me says, when one buys a house on a golf course, it seems logical that one should know there is an inherant risk a golf ball - or 2 - will come their way.
Of course, we are dealing with 2022 courts, not common sense.
“To me only an idiot would buy a house next to a golf course.”
It’s mASSachusetts. If it weren’t for the idiots then no one would live there.
I would like to live next to a golf course.
Most places have a Your Problem rule with houses next to a golf course.
Golf. An egregious misuse of a perfectly good rifle range.
I played golf on Friday. My playing partners hit four houses along the golf course. Really bad shots.
same thing happened when i was on city council of a small town in the early 1980’s ... guy buys a house adjacent to a golf course built a half a century before he bought his house ... we met in executive session and told the city manager and city attorney to make an offer to the homeowner that we would plant a row of evergreen spruces that would EVENTUALLY grow into a barrier ... and if that was unsatisfactory that we would see him in court ... the guy took the trees ...
In every town I’ve lived in, homes adjacent to golf courses were among the finest in town, owned by professional and business people who were definitely not “idiots”.
My dada used to live next to a golf course.
we used to hunt birds along the tree line seperating the two properties.
It was fun to bang off a round when someone was putting.
The really major problem was the drunks running over his mailbox as they left the 19th green.
Living next to a golf course is a problem that is portrayed as a privilege.
Problem is not everyone keeps golf on the golf course.
You can die from getting one of those on the noggin.
The other thing is is that no one does anything out of understanding and courtesy anymore. The golf course reconfigured that hole afterwards, and now they aren’t bombarded with golf balls anymore. The golf course would never have done that, and they didn’t, without being taken to court and losing. Despite the golf course being the cause of regular repeated damage and stress to these people.
That said, I would never buy a house next to an established golf course.i am not looking for stress, injury and a large lawsuit payday.
Is there an airport in that county? I was thinking of moving and later retiring after the noise lawsuit.
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So the fact the course was there first is irrelevant. In any case their balls were flying into some else's property.
The course could have either redesigned or they could have bought that property so no one would be harmed but they refused to do so until they were sued.
So the property owners were in the right, the course was in the wrong.
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.
Considering that none of these balls made it down the fairway, I’m thinking most of them were mine...
First World Problems.