OT RE: [Leica] Golf club life

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Exactly what we have done on our golf course - luckily for us a lot of the
boundary of the course is a small river. Otherwise we have residences, where
netting has been strung out.
Cheers
Jayanand

Locally a family bought a residence backing onto a well established golf
> course in a very desirable area. They got to be surrounded by picturesque
> green nature, a small lake and had pleasing views across the well
> maintained
> and landscaped course. Sometimes a stray ball would land in their property.
> These new residents objected vociferously to these incidents. I understand
> that the golf club apologised but politely pointed out that the course has
> been there for some time. The exchange became emotive with accusations of
> potential assassination of various family pets and visiting grandmas by
> lethal golf balls arriving in a veritable constant hail akin to the beaten
> zone from five machinegun emplacements. Eventually the club erected 20
> metre
> high massive posts along the property line and strung dense netting across
> the whole area. The residents are now completely safe from any incoming
> golf
> balls or views. I grin whenever I drive past.
> Reminds me of some other folks in another city where I lived. They insisted
> that the local authority open up farmland for housing development even
> though it was directly next to the end of the main runways of a military
> airbase. Of course they then complained loudly and campaigned to have
> flight
> hours restricted because it gets noisy. A little further down the road,
> market gardeners with greenhouses suffered some damage from a sonic boom
> where an aircraft accidentally exceeded the allowable speed some time ago.
> When the military investigated the widespread damages claims that followed,
> they were quite surprised to find that many panes had somehow broken from
> the inside out, much like might occur if someone were to strike the glass
> with a hammer from the inside of the greenhouse. Large wooden support beams
> were also damaged, luckily pottery planters survived unscathed. Also
> noticed
> were a number of unusual varieties of tomato plants growing amongst the
> market vegetables.
>
>
> Cheers
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/
> Pick up your camera and make the best photo you can.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: [Leica] Golf club life
>
> Nathan wrote:
>
> Good thing the golf club has liability insurance:
>
> http://www.greatpix.eu/gallery/4253606_netUM#414262401_9fHd6-O-LB
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan, I live on a golf course in Boynton Beach, Florida. Behind my house
> is the first fairway for the gold course. After we moved here, we began
> experiencing broken windows like you just had. Fortunately, we have 4-mil
> mylar film attached to the insides of all our windows to block UV and
> protect the windows. A golf ball will break a window but the ball and no
> glass chips will come into the house. This was especially important when a
> golf ball broke a bedroom window. We would have never gotten all the glass
> chips our of the carpet. But the film worked.
>
> I have since installed clear Lexan polycarbonate sheets over all the
> windows
> facing the golf course. Now when we get a hit, we hear the bump but no
> marks
> are left.
>
> A side benefit of the mylar film is to block 98% of UV radiation to
> virtually eliminate fading of my print collection and well as make the
> furniture last longer. This is really important here in South Florida where
> the tropical sun can be vicious and we have sun almost every day of the
> year!
>
> Is mylar window film available in Spain?
>
> Best regards.... Ken Lassiter
>
>
>
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