Injury on an icy course

[Kellfire]

By allowing the OP to play the golf course/club are, by proxy, declaring the course safe to play (or more accurately, as safe as when it is not experiencing such conditions).

Then the onus falls on the OP to show that he wouldn't have sustained his injury if the course had been safe. That's where the case is won and loss.

Can't believe how many people on here are saying they hope the OP doesn't get a penny, from the sounds of things he has a very good and proper case.

 

[bladeplayer]

http://www.golfclubmanagement.net/2013/03/shock-320k-damages-award-against-golf-club/

THIS ONE BELOW I DONT UNDERSTAND .. if i was employed as a ball spotter i would assume id be near where the balls were landing & accept i was in danger , yet its got to court .. strange thing the law aint it ?

"A ball spotter at Leven Links Golf Course was left blind in one eye when a ball hit by a competitor in the Scottish amateur Champion of Champions struck him.

The incident occurred in 2009, but David McMahon, 70, who is seeking £50,000 of damages"

 

[williamalex1]

Would you sue the the roads dept if you skidded on a icy road that hadn't been gritted or closed, no. Go sell your clubs and buy some knitting needles and balls of wool.you'll be safe then.
Sorry about your ankle btw. watch you don't poke your eye with your new toys

 

[Dodger]

Oooooofffttt.

I best keep out or I will be out of the forum if I start.

 

[pokerjoke]

Surely golf clubs will have public liability insurance.
So it wont cost the club any money.
However if this is the case im sure there are some clubs that cant afford the insurance,so
take the risk.
I dont know how a club works,maybe someone could enlighten us.
To all those have told the op to "get on with it".
Imagine it was you,however it was much worse.
For example you out on the course,its wet and there are some steps leading down from the tee box
to the fairway,the steps are wet and they have a little bit of moss on them.
You slip and hit your back and break it,its so bad you are in a wheelchair.
Your not so tough now are you,and yes you would want compensation.
Ok extreme but not impossible.
Wish the op would come back and defend himself.
Its amazing how many come on here looking for sympathy on some stupid little thing,then
bash someone for a more serious issue.
Rant over[i think]

 

[stevie_r]

By allowing the OP to play the golf course/club are, by proxy, declaring the course safe to play (or more accurately, as safe as when it is not experiencing such conditions).

Then the onus falls on the OP to show that he wouldn't have sustained his injury if the course had been safe. That's where the case is won and loss.

Can't believe how many people on here are saying they hope the OP doesn't get a penny, from the sounds of things he has a very good and proper case.

Are you serious? Why does anything that happens to a person have to be someone's fault and require financial reparation? utterly pathetic. By his own admission he could see that the course was icy.

Where is the 'jesus wept' smiley

 

[Kellfire]

Are you serious? Why does anything that happens to a person have to be someone's fault and require financial reparation? utterly pathetic. By his own admission he could see that the course was icy.

Where is the 'jesus wept' smiley

By being open the course is declared fit to play.

If it wasn't fit to play, he has a case.

Yes?

 

[stevie_r]

By being open the course is declared fit to play.

If it wasn't fit to play, he has a case.

Yes?

He is an adult, he knew it was icy, being an adult he could have put two and two togethor, Yes?
We live in Britain, the weather is generally crap, do you want to get to the stage where we can only actually get out on the course on around 60 days a year?

pathetic tree hugging everyone else is to blame spineless cry baby society we live in.

 

[triple_bogey]

Wonder if there were anyone more incidents like this at that course around that particular time?

 

[Dodger]

By being open the course is declared fit to play.

If it wasn't fit to play, he has a case.

Yes?

If we have a course that has no ice on it bar the shaded bit on the 7th and another on the 11th it should be closed then?

 

[MadAdey]

Pokerjoke,

To me the situation you say is in a different category. If there are wooden steps covered in moss then it is the responsibility of the club to put something on them to remove the moss or a non slip coating. If they choose to ignore it, then they are in trouble.

If there is a patch of ice that is not very obvious on the course that has developed overnight, the club would probably not even be aware of it. So would not think that there is a danger to anyone.

 

[Kellfire]

If we have a course that has no ice on it bar the shaded bit on the 7th and another on the 11th it should be closed then?

That is for the club to decide and accept the liability for. Not for me or you to decide.

 

[ADB]

pathetic tree hugging everyone else is to blame spineless cry baby society we live in.

Come on, tell us how you REALLY feel

The only thing I have to say is that if his claim is successful we are on a slippery slope of litigation.......sorry

 

[Kellfire]

He is an adult, he knew it was icy, being an adult he could have put two and two togethor, Yes?
We live in Britain, the weather is generally crap, do you want to get to the stage where we can only actually get out on the course on around 60 days a year?

pathetic tree hugging everyone else is to blame spineless cry baby society we live in.

So you admit that you're giving your opinion based on what you WANT to be the case rather than what is the case?

Two different scenarios.

 

[AmandaJR]

He is an adult, he knew it was icy, being an adult he could have put two and two togethor, Yes?
We live in Britain, the weather is generally crap, do you want to get to the stage where we can only actually get out on the course on around 60 days a year?

pathetic tree hugging everyone else is to blame spineless cry baby society we live in.

Well put :thup:

 

[MadAdey]

By being open the course is declared fit to play.

If it wasn't fit to play, he has a case.

Yes?

So going on your theory then every local council should shut every road down as soon as the first signs of ice start to appear, just in case someone was to drive on them before they had chance to grit them. As you are putting it, people can't make a judgement call by them self and need someone to guide them to stop them having accidents.

 

[Dodger]

That is for the club to decide and accept the liability for. Not for me or you to decide.

Nice side step there.

 

[pokerjoke]

Pokerjoke,

To me the situation you say is in a different category. If there are wooden steps covered in moss then it is the responsibility of the club to put something on them to remove the moss or a non slip coating. If they choose to ignore it, then they are in trouble.

If there is a patch of ice that is not very obvious on the course that has developed overnight, the club would probably not even be aware of it. So would not think that there is a danger to anyone.

Fair point mate.
But the point for me is the slating the op is getting.
What im trying to get at is if it happened to any of us,but on a worse scale,would we not want protection
of some sort.

 

[Kellfire]

So going on your theory then every local council should shut every road down as soon as the first signs of ice start to appear, just in case someone was to drive on them before they had chance to grit them. As you are putting it, people can't make a judgement call by them self and need someone to guide them to stop them having accidents.

Nope, I didn't say that's what should happen at all.

That is what you have inferred from what I have said.

 

[Kellfire]

Nice side step there.

Not at all. My opinion is irrelevant in this case, as is yours.