MA family wins $5 million verdict from country club after property hit by over 600 golf balls

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15. The builder shouldn't have built it in that spot...

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Which is why the settlement was reached. Someone, the realtor maybe (but that would've meant no 6% comission), should've warned the buyer. The buyer should've done due diligence as the golf course was already there.

Poor decisions all around.

This situation is not uncommon. I've played on courses where homeowners all alone the right side of the fairways have erected 20-25 feet high, chain link fences between their house and the course because, you know, golf balls go everywhere. And many of the houses still have pock-marked holes in their stucco walls from you know what.

It's often joked by us duffers about how the safest place to be on a golf course is in the middle of the fairway because many golfers are wild and shots go every which-a-way. What one sees on TV with the pros hitting the ball straight down the fairway is not reality at all on courses with amateur golfers.