Re: Golf ball on my car at 3rd!

From: Ken Poulton (poulton@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis)
Date: Sun Apr 18 1999 - 22:45:50 PDT


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From: Ken Poulton <poulton@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis>
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> The cherry on the cake for the day was a golf ball on
> my car and a nice bump on the roof :(
> Any advice about it? Who's responsible for the damage? Me for having parked
> next to the golf practice or the golf club for not protecting enough
> its surrounding from lost balls?

The golf course is responsible.

Go to the golf course manager and politely but firmly ask them to pay
for the damage. They usually pay, but sometimes they try to weasel out
of it. It's the least they can do for subjecting us to a rain of golf
balls because they are too cheap to build the right size fences.

Ken Poulton
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