Non-golfers will go and just whack away with the driver to see how far they can hit the ball, or to forego the need for conversation with their dates.
It's up to the range operator to make sure the range is properly enclosed with netting, fences etc.
As for shooting golfers, make sure they are not very good, as they could return fire. From a couple of hundred yards, the good ones could hit your house more easily than you could shoot them unless you are some kind of expert sniper.
>
> I deduced that a golf driving range is a place where people, for reason(s) I
> can't quite fathom, go to to hit golf balls as hard and far as they can.
> Over and over again? And people say cricket is boring...
>
> Be that as it may, the reporter interviewed some of the numb-nuts who engage
> in this activity. They were quite sympathetic to the problems of the people
> on the receiving end of their missiles. But they seemed genuinely perplexed
> about what could be done about the problem. "If someone can come up with a
> solution, we'd be glad to get on board", one told the reporter. He
> positively oozed sincerity, I was left in no doubt that the solution, the
> obvious solution, was not at all obvious to him.
>
> Nor to any of his fellow golfers we must assume.
>
> So problem solving is definitely not a skill associated with people who hit
> golf balls. Not if the people interviewed for this story are a
> representative sample of the sport. But I would have assumed that this is
> precisely the kind of skill we would hope to find in "the leader of the free
> world"?
>
> Has anyone done any research into this? Can people be cured of the
> side-effects of playing golf? Do the effects wear off if they kick the
> habit? Is anyone working on a random breath test to detect golfer/drivers?
> (There's a scary thought.)
>
> Or don't you yanks have this problem? I just remembered, it is your custom
> to shoot trespassers, so is hitting a golf ball onto someone's private
> property maybe considered trespassing? So would you just shoot golfers on
> sight? That would be the most humane thing I suppose, but it might be a bit
> tricky getting within range of Obama, what with all the bodyguards and all.
>
> On top of the risk of being smacked in the head with a golf ball, it
> wouldn't be worth the risk, so what can be done? If someone can come up with
> a solution, I'll be glad to get on board.
>
> Bill Bartlett
> Bracknell Tas
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