Would be nice, except I know of a few that don’t have any adjacent roadway barriers and haven’t for decades.
Something happened after leaving a car show.
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Sleeping Giant Golf course Hamden CT has huge nets on Rt 10.
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I had a similar incident and they paid for my windshield. The golf course is responsible. It is responsible to keep the public safe and to keep errant balls on their property. They can use trees, fences, nets or any means to protect people and property. Just file a claim or your insurance can do it.
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What car?
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1968 Dodge Charger
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This situation brings out a lot of bad memories for me.
One of my other vices is flying. My flying club keeps its planes in hangers located across an access road from what until recently was a resort with a golf course.
I’d find golf balls on the ramp by the hangers all the time.
One day I finished flying and found and dent in my lower passenger side door of my ‘09 Challenger. I’m sure it came from an errant golf ball. A trip to a PDR place and $125 or so later it was fixed.
A year or so later, I drove the car to work and parked in the parking garage. After work, I was approaching the car and noticed something on the top of the passenger fender about 6” in front of the windshield, a dent. WTH! I looked around thinking a chunk of concrete might have fell from the roof and hit my car, but found nothing.
The last time I had drove the car was a few days earlier to the airport. I then drove home and put the car in my garage.
I think that a golf ball hit it at the airport and I hadn’t noticed it then.
I took the car back to the PDR place and they couldn’t fix it.
I called insurance and they sent me to a body shop for an estimate, replace fender, paint, new stripe, emblem etc. for $1500.
A buddy of mine owns a body shop and has a PDR guy who comes in one day a week. He made me an appointment and scheduled me a rental car. Late afternoon he called and said your car is ready! I came in and the dent was gone. He said it took his PDR guy over 2 hours to repair it. Then he had to polish the paint as the process marred the paint. $450 bill, I had to pay $100 deductible, but was extremely thankful he was able to fix without replacing the fender.
I daily drive a compact car and probably drive it to the airport 3 times for every time I drove the Challenger there, and it never got hit, so I really have to wonder if some malicious golfers targeted my Challenger.
Whatever the case, the resort went bankrupt a few years ago, got closed, sold and bulldozed. Now warehouses are being built there. Needless to say I don’t miss that golf course!
I had another car that in 2007 a golf ball hit the hood while driving by a course and left a dent.
So I’m no fan of golf courses at all!
One of my other vices is flying. My flying club keeps its planes in hangers located across an access road from what until recently was a resort with a golf course.
I’d find golf balls on the ramp by the hangers all the time.
One day I finished flying and found and dent in my lower passenger side door of my ‘09 Challenger. I’m sure it came from an errant golf ball. A trip to a PDR place and $125 or so later it was fixed.
A year or so later, I drove the car to work and parked in the parking garage. After work, I was approaching the car and noticed something on the top of the passenger fender about 6” in front of the windshield, a dent. WTH! I looked around thinking a chunk of concrete might have fell from the roof and hit my car, but found nothing.
The last time I had drove the car was a few days earlier to the airport. I then drove home and put the car in my garage.
I think that a golf ball hit it at the airport and I hadn’t noticed it then.
I took the car back to the PDR place and they couldn’t fix it.
I called insurance and they sent me to a body shop for an estimate, replace fender, paint, new stripe, emblem etc. for $1500.
A buddy of mine owns a body shop and has a PDR guy who comes in one day a week. He made me an appointment and scheduled me a rental car. Late afternoon he called and said your car is ready! I came in and the dent was gone. He said it took his PDR guy over 2 hours to repair it. Then he had to polish the paint as the process marred the paint. $450 bill, I had to pay $100 deductible, but was extremely thankful he was able to fix without replacing the fender.
I daily drive a compact car and probably drive it to the airport 3 times for every time I drove the Challenger there, and it never got hit, so I really have to wonder if some malicious golfers targeted my Challenger.
Whatever the case, the resort went bankrupt a few years ago, got closed, sold and bulldozed. Now warehouses are being built there. Needless to say I don’t miss that golf course!
I had another car that in 2007 a golf ball hit the hood while driving by a course and left a dent.
So I’m no fan of golf courses at all!
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While waiting at a stoplight, a buddy of mine had an 8 iron come through the center of his windshield! He said it took 20 yrs off his life. The golf course tracked down the culprit who threw the club (a Chicago firefighter), and was able to get the guy's "Homeowner's Ins." info. They paid for a new windshield but not sure if they paid to recover the driver's seat.
Not too different than golf ball sized hail. One time I picked up my brand-new company ride from the dealer and had to drive to a satellite office 70-miles away. I was about 10-miles from the office still on the interstate when running into a thunderstorm. Then came the blinding rain and deafening banging. Pulled off to the e-lane while still getting pelted by large hail. When I got to the office I stepped out of the car and was shocked, it looked a lot different than when I got in it an hour earlier! Dozens of dents front to back. Company had me take it to a place called Dent Doctors. Did a great job sucking those dents out, unlike the other time when my wife’s car endured a hailstorm in our driveway. The hood and deck had to be replaced..
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You'll also need a new rubber seal.
You can buy a thinner, cheap replacement or one of those with the factory correct Chrysler logo from an authorized dealer. It depends on the quality of the car and whether it was a factory windshield.
So in return, one could drive by a golf course and honk their horn during their back swing. Payback.
j-c-c-62
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No golfer I know is willing to lose two strokes min (1 stroke and 1 penalty) to strike any car for any reason that is under 16' long when they have a hard enough time just landing on a green that is what, 50'? wide. 
This might be related and a bit over the top:
"If you know there is a chance your vehicle can be hit by a baseball. Park further away."
MSN
This might be related and a bit over the top:
"If you know there is a chance your vehicle can be hit by a baseball. Park further away."
MSN
I hope the offending Golfer found his ball and played the lie. Otherwise, the two-stroke penalty would definitely be in play.
Or if the ball was found in the car when in the next city, the ball was probably Out of Bounds.
Or if the ball was found in the car when in the next city, the ball was probably Out of Bounds.
Lol, never been to a GC where the parking lot was 'in' boundsI hope the offending Golfer found his ball and played the lie. Otherwise, the two-stroke penalty would definitely be in play.
Or if the ball was found in the car when in the next city, the ball was probably Out of Bounds.
It was a tongue-in-cheek comment....but I hear your laughter anyway.
I have put my fair share of balls out of the course of play - hit the side of a house one Sunday morning - put a hole in the asbestos siding. We could see the ball on the ground, and my buddies couldn't stop laughing. Luckily it was a Govt rental home, so nobody got too upset.
Another one of my stray balls won me a nice prize..... the MC and bigwig of the host company found my ball wayyyyy out of bounds in the rough. I only got a prize out of that because I always write my initials on my balls.....and it had the Company logo on the ball also. No way to get out of that one.
Minutes after that, I won the biggest prize of the day - for a random quiz. One question they thought nobody could answer. And to think I played the second worst round of anyone that day.....it was a shocker.
j-c-c-62
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Are we assuming here the struck car or its surroundings were not hard/reflective enough to bounce the ball back in bounds?
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So what was the question?
Who was the first (and only) person to hit a golf ball anywhere but Planet Earth?
Of course everyone was yelling out Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin etc...... I waited for the shouting to die down and said Alan Shephard.
The room went quiet; I went up on stage and was asked how the hell I knew that. It's funny I had kind of known that for a long time in my memory banks, but we had been discussing Moon stuff here at FBBO not long before that Golf day, and it had jogged my memory. I had been waiting for a question on the longest putt or drive....never happened. This was back in 2019.
j-c-c-62
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Why do Kiwi's have such a great historical reputation in racing?
We're good at everything..... because we are so far away from the rest of the world, we have learned to "Make do" with what we have available.Why do Kiwi's have such a great historical reputation in racing?
Adaptation is a strong suit with many Kiwi's.
and now .... SVG
Not at all. Just that when someone launches their ball into a parking lot and hearing some nasty noises, last thing they want to do is go searching the parking lot for it, first reaction is to walk in another direction pretending it wasn’t him/her having hit that ball.
If one is paying a caddie, they give him more money to stay quiet.
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