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Couple living on a golf course awarded $5 million after golf balls kept getting hit into yard

Golf ball resting on grass
Golf ball resting on grass
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Erik and Athina Tenczar moved into their home in the Indian Pond Estates, just nearby Indian Pond Country Club, in 2017.

Since then, the couple says their home has been barraged by more than 600 errant golf balls, leaving "dented walls and broken windows" in their wake.


Athina told the Boston Globe, "When it hits, it sounds like a gunshot.  It's very scary."

Due to the fact that the couple, and their three young children are constantly scared of the influx of golf balls, ultimately decided to sue Indian Pond for the amount of golf balls hitting their home, and they WON.

A Plymouth County Superior Court jury recently awarded the couple $4.93 million, citing that the jury found the club at fault for not protecting the home from the errant balls.

Indian Pond has filed an appeal.

The club's lawyer John Flemming told The Globe, "I'm extremely confident that the injunction will be struck down," Indian Pond's lawyer.  In my opinion, as a matter of law, the verdict of $3.5 million for alleged emotional distress is against the weight of the evidence."

The club has since made changes to the 15th hole of its course, and the Tenczars have not seen a golf ball on their property in months.

The couples' attorney, Robert Galvin said, "They thought they were buying golf-course-view property and what they ended up buying was a golf-course-in-play property. It was apparent to anyone that this house was going to be struck as repeatedly as this one was, they would have never bought this property."

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