Our cabin is on a golf course and we're replacing some windows. What do we need to be looking/asking for? One quote has a coating that claims it'll do. Doesn't it need to be special glass?

Safety laminated glass better than its cousin windshield glass
that comes in $$$$ quality options

We use the high dollar stuff on museums, banks, et al, for "as they say"
by the time the burglar finally breaks through it, law enforcement has arrived

There's a high-wind tempered glass, that in smaller panes like 2x2ft have survived a framing hammer test that is an EZ option on most standard windows & sizes

Other defenses involve jail-like bars, mesh, BBQ grills that is hard to sell.

Best defenses are evergreens that can slap down a driver ball looking for trouble.

Some use a vicious dog that "trains" golfers to concentrate on their swing to stay far away or use cheap "water balls"

I don't suggest the exterior plastic "curtains" that defend the glass behind them.

One golf vacation saw vertical arbors mounted to deflect/catch a certain direction of incoming missles

There are impact windows, lot of houses on the coast have them. Don't need to board up for hurricanes. Something like they withstand a 2x4 at 130mph.
Yes, they cost more.

MGS said:

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Picard said:

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Depends. Will I be playing on this golf course?

If so, your windows are doomed no matter what.

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From somebody with your user name, I'd expect a transparent aluminum joke.

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That's the ticket, laddie!

"Just get regular windows and a relationship with a good glass shop. Probably cheaper to go standard glass and replace when needed than to spend high dollar on glass the "might" break less."

This. We live on a golf course in SW Florida and have had two windows broken in 6 years. The cost to replace the glass myself was about $100 all in, per window, for 29" x 34" glass panes, beading, silicone, etc. For a glass or window guy to do it, about $250 for one window, as of two years ago. Hope that helps.