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"In most cases, the victims were standing in what ...(is) call(ed) “the hot zone.” That’s the area between approximately 270 and 300 yards from the tee. Often it’s on the opposite side of where the trouble is on a hole."

This is talking about the pro tour. I wonder where the hot zone is in The Villages courses. 125 - 200 yards out?

True, but if you're familiar with Fort Walton #7, and I think you are considering your post about #4, you would agree it IS a VERY bad shot:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

It's considered collateral damage if you decide to purchase a home on a golf course. You might want to wear a helmet when you're puttering about the house.😁

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Not trying to be insensitive but golfers golf on the courses and do not intentionally hit balls onto houses. I can’t believe anyone would expect them to come to your residence after an incident. If they see you outside, a “sorry about that” would be nice but otherwise, there’s nothing else to be done. You know the risks in living on a golf course.

I probably could make that shot that is why I have given up the game until I get around to get another lesson to correct my new bad habit, as opposed to my previous bad habits.

I've hit a few houses especially on par 4s on very tight executive courses. No windows yet. Caught a lot of flack from one irate homeowner after I hit the roof of her home. I apologized many times. A few rare times while trying to hit a fade on a dogleg right, I clobbered a few pull hooks, often called double cross hits. They start left and go even farther left. A couple disappeared over the first row of houses to end up who knows where. I imagine I could have hit a house not on the course. I won't ever know I guess. I assume those would be on me.

You sound like a golfer.

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It is an Assumed Risk living on a golf course. An accident and the golfer is not liable.

Sorry about your window.

My wife and I were playing one of the executive courses a few years back (Silver Lake, I think...could be wrong...) and the fairway on one of the holes paralleled a row of houses. My wife's drive bounced into a guy's yard, who was out working trimming some bushes. She asked if she could get her ball back, and the guy cheerfully went over to the ball and tossed it to her. I commented that with such close proximity to the fairway broken windows must be a worry. He grinned, went over to the nearest window, rapped on it and said "Plexiglas!".

Sort of a sad commentary on our society, where somebody might be hesitant to do the right thing because of unforeseen negative consequences. My first instinct, if I did hit a ball that broke a window, would be to tell the owner because that is the way that I was raised. Likewise if I owned a house on a golf course and somebody broke a window with a golf ball I'd expect him or her to tell me. I wouldn't ask him to pay for the window, nor would I accept it if he offered (re-glazing a window is not difficult) though I would mention that if he stopped by with a bottle of good bourbon I'd certainly share a drink or three with him.

Our society has certainly changed, and not in a good way.

or a duffer:a20:

You better be careful these days just going on to someone’s property. You could get shot.

and the homeowner's bullet could be classified as self-defense.

:22yikes:

And then the fight began!

I find the "if you agree with me, you were raised right, like I was" mentality to be very interesting.
In case you didn't know, Ted Bundy, Jeffery Dahmer, and Paul Bernardo were all "raised right" in loving homes with very normal childhoods. Virtue signaling is not always complimentary.

So, if driving (a car) on a gravel road and your car throws up a gravel stone which breaks a windshield of the car behind, personnel accountability and ethics should guide one to pay for the damaged caused?