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Our lanai which faces Pinellas place and across Pinellas Place is on the 8th green of Killdeer. Very close. It is fun to watch the golfers come up to the green, park their carts and play the green.

Occasionally some one hit the ball into the street and even more rarely into our yard. All fun to watch as the golfer retrieves his ball and play the green from the curb on the Killdeer side of the street.

But recently, as we were sitting on our Lanai, someone hit it into our yard, and came across the street into our yard to get his ball and instead of taking it back across Pinellas Place, he proceeded to hit the ball from our yard as we watched.

After his swing, I called out to ask him to please not hit the ball from our yard "next time" and he replied "I just trimmed your grass for you". Yea, a nice divot.

We have a neighbor who retrieves all the balls hit into their yard and the golfer is out of luck. We haven't done that, but have found several in our yard. And previously when hit into our yard the golfer will come over, pick up the ball and play it from the curb on the Killdeer side.

It was my understanding that if the ball is hit into a yard, the golfer surrenders the ball. I don't really want to start collecting balls, but I was really surprised that the golfer actually hit the ball from our lawn.

Poor golf etiquette or am I being out of line??