A GOLF ball came flying out of nowhere to smash into a Weymouth couple’s hillside home and ricochet across the garden.

The hole in one blast shattered a pane of glass in the first-floor bathroom window and astonished the Rodwell residents who live nowhere near a golf course.

Housewife Elizabeth Clarebrough, 48, of Purbeck Close, said: “I was trying to cook dinner and my husband was in another downstairs room looking out the window, when we heard an almighty bang.

“We thought at first that a bird had flown into the window because that has happened around here.

“We both rushed outside and my husband saw a golf ball rocketing across the garden.

“There aren’t any golf courses near to us and nothing but trees behind and some houses a bit below us.

“We think it must’ve been someone playing silly beggars in Barnhaven Close. Unfortunately, their ‘hole in one’ happened to be our bathroom window.

“A golf ball is so hard and solid that if it had hit a person or our pet cat it would’ve killed them.”

She added: “I know accidents happen but to deliberately hit a golf ball when they’re not sure where it’s going to go in a residential area is at best stupid.

“We’d like to shame the idiot; whether they come forward and pay for the damage, I don’t know.

“We contacted the police and I was really impressed with the response – two officers came around about 9.55pm and they said they’d knocked on a few doors. They obviously thought it serious enough to be investigated.

“We’re now going through the insurance to get our window repaired.”

Mrs Clarebrough said her Bengal cat Oscar had been looking out of the front door at the time and would have seen it fly across the garden.

She added: “The ball had obviously been travelling upwards because only the outer pane of our double-glazed bathroom window was shattered, if it had been coming horizontally, it would have shot in the bathroom.”