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Originally Posted by mikeod
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.
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Mikeod, Thank you!
We have golf front on Palmer. Good news is we are lined up with tee boxes and very few balls come into our yard.
Yesterday I was sitting in my birdcage having a drink. A golf ball hit the bird cage and scared me to death. Ball landed in my yard and I thought what a terrible drive, went straight right but at least I got a golf ball.
Then with me sitting and watching, all 4 in the party came into the yard to look for the ball. I have a great deal of landscaping with white rocks. Also the golf course has evergreen trees and tall grass protecting my yard and house. I just sat there in shock like I was watching an Easter egg hunt. They looked everywhere, found it and waved bye to me. Hope it was a good ball!
Our house is all windows in the back. The wife and I often don't have enough clothes on for the uninvited guests all over our yard!!!! I hope most golfers don't trespass into yards.