When she moved into her retirement condominium on a golf course, Eleanor Weiner admired the lush, pristine views of the fairways and greens, a landscape she never had to mow or maintain. Not long after, as she prepared dinner, a golf ball shattered the kitchen window, whistled past her head and crashed through the glass on her oven door. Ms. Weiner retrieved the ball from her oven and stalked outside to confront the golfer who had launched the missile.
“He told me that’s what I get for living on a golf course,” said Ms. Weiner, who has lived for a dozen years alongside Rancho Las Palmas Country Club near Palm Springs, Calif. “That was the first time I heard that, but it surely hasn’t been the last.”
Nor is it necessarily the law. Read the article to see that some homeowners are suing — and winning — including the one who “collected 1,800 golf balls from her property … then lugged them into court when she sued the club.”
And this: “The one time I did catch the guy, he gave me an address and phone number that turned out to be phony. He was playing in a church outing.”