The only thing I've seen during my admittedly modest research is that it's not usually cut-and-dried. But a couple of opinions (which I happen to agree with) do seem to recur quite frequently...
1) In an average situation of a golfer accidentally doing relatively minor damage to a home with a stray shot, the homeowner would have a hard time getting the golfer to be held legally responsible, largely because the homeowner was aware of the possibility of such an occurrence before purchasing the home;
2) It would also be very difficult to find a golfer guilty of trespassing if he simply went a short distance onto somebody's property to retrieve a golf ball and immediately returned to the golf course.
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