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Originally Posted by Oren L Miller
They say you can't walk into someone's yard to recover a ball. I do have trouble with that. I think if I can walk in without doing any damage whatsoever and not disturb anyone in the house I should be able to recover the ball. Playing the ball in their yard should never happen. It is a very interesting question and probably will never be agreed upon issue.
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I understand your point, but consider this which actually happened to my mom. My folks had a home on a golf course. Their home sat about six feet above the level of the course and had a block retaining wall on the course side. There were stairs leading down from their home to the fairway with a locked gate at the bottom. One morning my mom was getting dressed in her bedroom when she was startled to see a man in her back yard just outside her bedroom windows looking for his golf ball. This guy had to scale the wall or climb over the gate to get to the yard. That's trespassing.
To me, living on a golf course means I accept the chance my home could get damaged by a golf ball, but it does not mean I accept people tromping over my back yard to retrieve a ball. Think about this. You may be one person going into the yard, but you are seen by other golfers doing this, so it must be OK, right? And you're not the only one on this homeowner's lot that day. Multiply that by the number of days people are on that hole every year. I wholeheartedly agree with the policy prohibiting retrieving a ball from private property. It is not unique to TV.