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Originally Posted by Larchap49
Standing on the tee of 7th hole of Longleaf about 3 houses down on the left there is house with large grill with a Duke cover on it. He threatens to have golfers arrested for trespassing if they step foot in his yard to retrieve a ball. He has a large bowls of golf ball prominitly displayed on a table just inside his screen enclosure. A very friendly gentleman I've heard. Imagine buying a house close to the tee box on a golf course and then being an ass when a ball lands in your yard.
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I'm assuming that this gentleman is the (very rare) exception to the rule. The people we've encountered living in homes adjacent to the golf courses seem very friendly.
Case in point: my wife and I were on Silver Lake before it closed for remodeling. Some of the holes have fairways that parallel a line of homes; one hole actually has a green that is very close to someone's yard. Anyway, my wife hit a drive that sliced into the yard of a resident, who had just gotten off a ladder where he was cleaning gutters. We asked him if we could retrieve our ball, and he had no problem with that. I politely observed that living where he did he must get a lot of errant balls, and asked him if he had to replace windows from time to time. He laughed, rapped on a window and said "Plexiglas!"