It does seem that the general viewpoint of a lot of golfers is that it is not their responsibility to pay for a broken window from their errant shot.
Legality vs ethics?
I have played with guys here in The Villages who have hit houses and they drive away as fast as possible. Definitely the wrong thing to do ethically.
I was playing one day and the guy in the cart with me hit a house with his ball. He told me to drive to the other side of the course quickly. Instead, I drove up to that house to see if a window had been hit. This guy was yelling and cursing at me the whole time. Luckily for him, no damage had been done. Naturally, we do not associate anymore.
How did we raise our kids? If they broke a window, they pay for it. Let's us show the same ethics we tried to teach our kids.
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