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You’ll have to shell out more than $200 if you want to watch a round unfold at the PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club this week. However, someone who lives on the course came up with an ingenious solution to catch some of the action for free while thwarting the fence that was erected to prevent them from doing so.
Living on a golf course tends to come with some perks as well as more than a few potential downsides. You have instant access if you’re a member of the club in question (and might be able to sneak onto it to get some practice in if you’re not), but depending on where your home is located, you also run the risk of broken windows, dented siding, and a steady stream of golfers walking into your yard in search of their ball.
You might even be able to watch some of the best golfers in the world do their thing from the comfort of that same yard if the course in question is prestigious enough to serve as a stop on the PGA Tour, which was the case with a homeowner at PGA West who posted up in his bathrobe at The American Express earlier this year.
Officials overseeing this week’s PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club took some steps to prevent the dozens of people with homes that abut the property from getting a glimpse at the major, but one of them literally went above and beyond to foil them.
Someone who lives next to Aronimink Golf Club built a platform in their yard to watch the PGA Championship
Aronimink is located in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, and the exclusive private club (which boasts an initiation fee of $150,000) meshes with the fabric of one of the more affluent suburbs in the Philadelphia area.
The house is surrounded by multimillion-dollar homes, and it’s safe to assume most of the people who reside in them could afford to buy tickets to attend the PGA Championship. However, there’s one person (who may or may not have been motivated by sheer spite) who decided to go a different route.
Prior to the start of the major, organizers erected fences covered with opaque material to both prevent outsiders from accessing the course and block people who live next to it from watching what unfolds.
However, someone who lives next to the tee box on the 14th hole apparently took that as a challenge, as a video that was filmed during a practice round captured a number of spectators watching Justin Rose while standing atop a platform that was built in the yard next to the par-3.
behind Aronimink’s 14th tee someone has built an enormous platform in their backyard. incredible to place to watch the PGA. also unlocks an entirely new level of golf bro pic.twitter.com/ctl599QUis
— Dylan Dethier (@dylan_dethier) May 13, 2026
Well played.