This is a home in North Arlington where we recently finished
an extensive project. We redesigned all the customer’s plant material, patio
spaces, walkways and decks. As you can see from the pictures, the back yard has
a beautiful view of Washington Golf and Country Club. Our customer on this job
was one of our all-time favorites, which made building this project fun from
beginning to end. One funny story that came up during the building of this
project dealt with stray golf balls that would land out of bounds in the back
yard of this house. One day while I was visiting the work site you could hear
an incoming ball coming through the trees. The whole crew simultaneously put
their hands up over their heads to protect themselves. The ball landed
harmlessly in the middle of the back yard. This is the funny part, one of our
masonry guys, thought he was being a Good Samaritan, walked over to the ball,
picked it up, and threw it back on the golf course. Sure enough, the golfer
came down the fairway looking for his ball. Finding his ball, he looked back to
his foursome and yelled, “I told you it didn’t go out of bounds!” I explained
to the crew that this was not like soccer and returning the ball is not part of
golf etiquette. They laughed and claimed that they’d been doing it multiple
times per day. So I guess some members at Washington Golf owe their low scores
to O’Grady’s Landscape.
