BBC<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s the responsibility of the course that if they do hit a bad shot, it stays within the bounds of the course.\u201d<\/p>\nFennel said that balls started finding his property two years ago and there have now been around 100 of them with dents in his two cars and roof tiles dislodged from an outbuilding causing up to \u00a33,000 in damage.<\/p>\n
\u201cImagine a child being in a coma in Ipswich Hospital having been struck by a golf ball,\u201d he warned. \u201cIn my experience, if these things can happen at some point, they will. Children should have the right to play without fear or random projectiles causing them a great deal of harm.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fennel moved into his property, which sits adjacent to one of the fairways at Ufford Park, eight years ago, which is 18 years after the course was opened for business. He was asked whether stray golf balls landing by his home was always a possibility after moving so close to a golf course.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would say, if you chose to live next to a shooting range and you had a few stray bullets come into your garden, would you be happy with that?\u201d he replied. He also used another analogy, saying that if somebody lived near a farm and \u201chalf a dozen\u201d cows entered his garden and kicked a dent in the homeowner\u2019s car, they\u2019d be entitled to ask the farmer why they were allowed to enter the property.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had several thousand pounds worth of damage to vehicles and property, and I heard a golf ball whistle past my ear and the thud as it landed was terrifying,\u201d he added. \u201cWe would really like Ufford Park golf course to take responsibility for that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fennel wants the resort to pay for the damage to his property and is said to have even set up a satirical website for golfers to pay to reclaim their balls that have landed in his garden.<\/p>\n
The resort told the BBC it was \u201ccommitted to providing a safe environment\u201d and conducts regular risk reviews for players and those who live nearby the course.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson added: \u201cSince opening back in 1992, we have engaged in course redesign, signage and education whilst reminding golfers of their responsibilities of care whilst playing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A father has called for drastic action in a row about stray golf balls at a popular UK…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-702167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}