In markets in everything news, apparently the culture that is Japanese golf somewhat encourages you to throw a party for all your friends at the golf club if you score a hole in one or albatross.
It's a big deal. Branded goods, lots of alcohol, etc. Costs about $10k.
It's a big deal. Branded goods, lots of alcohol, etc. Costs about $10k.
You could of course simply not throw a party at the golf club which costs $10k, but what kind of salaryman hits a hole in one but doesn't take their buddies out for a round of celebratory drinking? A bad salaryman.
So you can buy a rider to your golf insurance which covers this.
So you can buy a rider to your golf insurance which covers this.
"A what?"
So you will probably at some point get told "You should really buy an insurance, which might not explicitly be branded as golf insurance, to cover the case where e.g. you hit your golf ball out of bounds and it shatters a window or injures a bypasser."
So you will probably at some point get told "You should really buy an insurance, which might not explicitly be branded as golf insurance, to cover the case where e.g. you hit your golf ball out of bounds and it shatters a window or injures a bypasser."
And, if that insurance product is being sold specifically into the golf channel, it might include an extra added risk (with or without an extra charge) "If you throw a celebratory event after a Covered Event we will reimburse up to $10k of directly incurred costs, as below."
"Doesn't this seem like rife for abuse?"
High trust society, you can rely on the golf club to care more about whether the hole-in-one was fairly earned or not than anyone outside a Japanese golf club thinks is reasonable, etc etc.
High trust society, you can rely on the golf club to care more about whether the hole-in-one was fairly earned or not than anyone outside a Japanese golf club thinks is reasonable, etc etc.
"How on earth did you find out about this?"
My insurance carrier for bicycle insurance changed as a result of corporate fiddle faddle and the new insurer dutifully sent me a list of things which changed about their policies, including the new timeframe for execution of parties.
My insurance carrier for bicycle insurance changed as a result of corporate fiddle faddle and the new insurer dutifully sent me a list of things which changed about their policies, including the new timeframe for execution of parties.
You really have to love the fact that serious professionals in the financial industry put their heads together, got an actuary involved, and decided "I mean that's basically not going to be visible on the loss ratio; let's take one for the team and reap the marketing win."
And as a direct consequence there is probably an actuary somewhere in Tokyo who knows what the most poorly balanced hole in Japan is.
"Do you ever regret not knowing more about sports?"
I have not noticed that people I look but to who are ignorant that resolving large pulse lasers before SRMs is optimal play feel a tremendous hole in their life about this fact.
I have not noticed that people I look but to who are ignorant that resolving large pulse lasers before SRMs is optimal play feel a tremendous hole in their life about this fact.
(It maximizes for mech-disabling critical hits. Trust me. Probably the most important non-obvious feature of the BattleTech ruleset after "being in partial cover against adversaries with high-damage weapons kills more heavy mechs than any other cause; prefer being in no cover.")
("You're geeking out on this a bit much." Have you met me.)
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