Golf can be a dangerous game!

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My nephew is stationed in Afghanistan at the moment and they found a golf club which had been left at their patrol base by a previous soldier. They decided to get on the roof and hit some balls into the desert with the "pitching iron". Seems their skills were somewhat limited as his mate took a huge swipe, air shot, and landed it squarely on Brandon's nose breaking it (his nose, not the club)!

Ouch! :fore:
 
Ouchie! Gotta have some fun out there! I've not been hit on the course yet!, but had a few that have rebounded off a tree and straight past my face again. My own fault!
 
AxelBenito said:
Ouchie! Gotta have some fun out there! I've not been hit on the course yet!, but had a few that have rebounded off a tree and straight past my face again. My own fault!
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I've been hit twice. Once in a match when my opponent smacked it straight into a tree and it came at me like a bullet straight in the ribs! Next time it was me who hit the tree right in front of me (I was planning to hit to the side of it) and came back and smacked me in the chin. Split it open and I looked a bit like Kirk Douglas for a while :o

Oh and a couple of weeks ago I took a swing and caught a very bouncy tree branch which came back and smacked me across the cheek!

That's got to be my three done and dusted now!
 
I hit the concrete base of a floodlight about a year ago, it was 20 yards or so in front of me, this ball stayed about 6 inches off the deck the whole way to it, it clattered off it at the perfect angle to send it back towards my head - luckily I saw it and moved otherwise that was me finished off. Ended up about 60 yards behind me. Ridiculous pace on the rebound!

I'm not sure i'd wanna be on the roof of anything in Afghan though, head down and all that. Glad the spirit is high though and touch wood he stays safe.
 
I had a short chip to the green a few weeks ago, my mate was the other side of the green in some bushes looking for a lost ball. I thinned it and the ball took off like a rocket, caught my mate on the side of his head as he emerged from the said bushes, he fell to the ground like he'd been shot with a rifle. Apart from a lump the size of a plum he was OK. Scared me to death though, I'm much more careful about when I take my shot now and I got myself insured.
 
Last Year My playing partner hit driver of the toe. Struck the tee marker and came back at me like a rocket hitting me on the thigh. Couldn't feel it for laughing but next day rather large bruise !
 
I got hit from about 80 yards with a shot from my partners rescue club. A bruise the size of a dinner plate soon emerged - the guy that hit it just moaned that I didn't deflect it back on the fairway!

A few weeks afterwards I gave 1st aid, whilest awaiting an ambulance, to a lady who had been hit on the head by a ball when she went back along a tree line to look for a headcover. One of the guys I was playing with said that I should have let her die - she was a pe teacher at the same school he taught pe to the boys and he hated her!


Chris
 
A few years ago at our annual society weekend four of us were on a green. We were all within six feet of each other. Heard a thud and watched one of us, a big strapping lad, drop to the ground like a stone. A ball had hit him full bore into his sternum. He was totally winded for about five minutes. A foot higher and it would have been curtains for him but it could have been any of us. A very scarey moment.
The ball had been hit from another fairway out of sight from the green.
 
September last year I was playing with a friend and I was stood over my second shot in a par 5 about to start my backswing when someones tee shot from an adjoining hole hit me straight on the elbow then on my thigh. No shout of fore, the next day I had a beauty of a bruise on my leg and my elbow was nicely swollen. All this was 2 weeks before Q school. After catching my breath, I got back up and knocked the shot on the green and rolled it in for eagle, after this I wanted to carry on, I was -6 through 12. But my friend also a pro ran to the Pro shop got some ice and put it on my elbow and forced me to stop playing. Still get pain in my elbow now if its cold.
 
I once put my golf bag down and about 1 second later a ball went straight in it from the adjacent practise range.
 
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