To the golfer on #5 tee on Southern Star today...

[NECHFalcon68]

...whose errant tee shot bounced across the grass, into the street, hit my car as we passed by, then bounced back in bounds...

You're welcome....I hope you made par...

[mtdjed]

That's why you don't see everyone lined up down the TeeBox watching us Tee Off. Welcome to The Villages.

[justjim]

Did you stop and ask the group? Errant golf shots do happen on a golf course. I am sure nobody was trying to hit your car----he/she may not even known it.

Maybe the best thing to do is just move on and be happy nobody was hurt.

[blueeagle65]

Bank shots are the most difficult - especially off a moving vehicle.

[Polar Bear]

Did you stop and ask the group? Errant golf shots do happen on a golf course. I am sure nobody was trying to hit your car----he/she may not even known it.

Maybe the best thing to do is just move on and be happy nobody was hurt.
I may be wrong, but I didn't think the OP was upset about anything. :)

[DonH57]

I was just telling my group when we playing friday that I have yet to hit a moving target. Yikes!!!

[tomwed]

It's call "the rub of the green" fender.

[villagetinker]

Bank shots are the most difficult - especially off a moving vehicle.

Way too funny!!! Now you know why I do not golf............this would be a daily occurrence.............:a20::a20::a20:

[dewilson58]

Nicely handled.

[NECHFalcon68]

I may be wrong, but I didn't think the OP was upset about anything. :)

Yep.
Just pointing out one of many ways to get to the green.
Thanks for the up-vote.

[dbussone]

I was just telling my group when we playing friday that I have yet to hit a moving target. Yikes!!!


I've only had 3 birdies. One involved a real bird - in flight. Thankfully it just got some sense knocked into itself - why fly over a golf course!

[CFrance]

Cajoled into playing golf in a vendor day function, my husband/non golfer sadly hit and killed a goose. The groundskeeper was quite ticked. "It's not like I'm good enough to do that on purpose," my husband told him, and gladly took over beer cart duty the next year.

[ajbrown]

Cajoled into playing golf in a vendor day function, my husband/non golfer sadly hit and killed a goose. The groundskeeper was quite ticked. "It's not like I'm good enough to do that on purpose," my husband told him, and gladly took over beer cart duty the next year.

Did your spell check auto correct? I assume you typed tickled. Many grounds keepers I know would pay your husband to come back and ride with their goose chasing dog :jester:

[CFrance]

Did your spell check auto correct? I assume you typed tickled. Many grounds keepers I know would pay your husband to come back and ride with their goose chasing dog :jester:
Let me put it another way. This groundskeeper was pi$$ed! The year was 1980. Perhaps geese were fewer in number then and more revered.:bowdown:

[looneycat]

...whose errant tee shot bounced across the grass, into the street, hit my car as we passed by, then bounced back in bounds...

You're welcome....I hope you made par...

could you cruise back and forth by tarpon boil today, I may need some help...:MOJE_whot:

[looneycat]

Did your spell check auto correct? I assume you typed tickled. Many grounds keepers I know would pay your husband to come back and ride with their goose chasing dog :jester:

spel chek is fore sysies!

[gomoho]

OP - I also read your post as one in jest - not a complaint. Guess it's that half empty/half full thing!

[Bonny]

spel chek is fore sysies!
Thats exacly as I beleeve !!

[golf2140]

...whose errant tee shot bounced across the grass, into the street, hit my car as we passed by, then bounced back in bounds...

You're welcome....I hope you made par...

Nicely put. Where in Philly?

[NECHFalcon68]

Nicely put. Where in Philly?"

"Lower Northeast"

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

I worked at two golf courses where this was a problem. It turns out that, in Massachusetts anyway, the golf course is responsible for any damage or injury that occurs.

I worked at one public course that actually was ordered by the courts to change the design of a golf hole because balls were frequently flying into a neighbor hood. A child was hit by one while playing in his yard. The thing that was troubling from the courses point of view is that the golf course was there before the development. When the golf course was built there was nothing by trees where these homes now stand. A developer went in, cleared the land, put in infrastructure and built numerous homes. People bought the homes with the full knowledge that the golf course was there.

The courts felt that the safety of the pubic trumped the fact that the homes came after the golf course.

At another course a hole ran right along the edge of a public road. Several cars were hit by golf balls during the five years that I worked there. People would come to the club house and sure enough, the club was responsible for paying for the damages.

The club planted trees and erected a fence to help to minimize the situation, but still occasionally, cars would get hit.

[DonH57]

One time while working on hvac equipment on the roof of a strip mall in Natick Massachusetts I soon learned the driving range was nearby. Luckily I carried a hard hat in my service truck and the equipment helped protect me as well.

[justjim]

Errant golf ball accidents are interesting with different outcomes. In my brief research I found that the Courts are not consistent in placing blame for the damage that occurs from an errant golf ball. There are different laws in different States but more important it can depend on local statutes and their interpretation by the courts. Outcomes can also be influenced by your attorney.

Things can get pretty dicey when a personal injury,or worse case a death, occurs from an errant golf ball. Lets hope none of us are involved in this type of situation. Fore.

[asianthree]

Our oldest said his best was hitting the green on a par three it bounced hit a school bus and bounced back on the green. :girlneener:

[kcrazorbackfan]

Cajoled into playing golf in a vendor day function, my husband/non golfer sadly hit and killed a goose. The groundskeeper was quite ticked. "It's not like I'm good enough to do that on purpose," my husband told him, and gladly took over beer cart duty the next year.

Hmm. We have drawings for controlled goose hunts on the two courses here in north KC. The hunts run from 12/1 to 2/28 and we alternate the closure of the two courses each week so the golfers and hunters don't mingle together.

[Miles42]

Now if I could get a shot to bounce off a gator and onto the green all would be well.

[jpvillager]

Hit a moving Villages Trolly on 466 on the fly. Told the guys I was just showing that The Villages is a golfing community. Cars are a lot harder. Did not make par.

[George Bieniaszek]

Was driving my golf cart on the cart path along BV Blvd along the Virginia golf course a few years back and saw an errant golfball bounce 10-15 feet in front of my cart on the path and go over my cart and continue its merry way :)

I was playing Palmetto last year and having a bad day of golf. Tee shot went left and onto 466A. Bounce Bounce Bounce, ended up in Fruitland Park. HA HA HA!!! Best tee shot of my career with a 3000 yard drive :) Jordan Speith, beware :)

[CFrance]

Was driving my golf cart on the cart path along BV Blvd along the Virginia golf course a few years back and saw an errant golfball bounce 10-15 feet in front of my cart on the path and go over my cart and continue its merry way :)

I was playing Palmetto last year and having a bad day of golf. Tee shot went left and onto 466A. Bounce Bounce Bounce, ended up in Fruitland Park. HA HA HA!!! Best tee shot of my career with a 3000 yard drive :) Jordan Speith, beware :)
No it didn't! It ended up on my car above the window. So YOU were the one...!!!!!!!!!

[Bay Kid]

I could of used the help yesterday on hole 3 at Southern Star. Launched one out of the bunker and hit the wall across the road. No cars in sight. Ugh!!!

[Chi-Town]

Pimlico #'s 2 and 3 can make Belvedere a firing range. Balls shoot across that street like cruise missiles.