Dave B
Q-School Graduate
On Tuesday evening in an after work round of 18 holes I made a very costly mistake. On the 9th tee which is a 154yd par 3, I scuffed my tee shot which hooked my ball out to the left over a small hump backed foot bridge.
The footbridge is a hump backed bridge with a 2 ft decorative wall and my ball landed 2ft or thereabouts from the wall.
The ball had landed on a bare patch of mud and my shot to the green was a 40 yd 60 degree wedge. Although the lie of the ball wasn't good, I was confident that I'd be able to get the ball over the wall without too much of a problem
I was wrong
it's not often I hit two bad shots in a row however with a four ball on the 9th watching and my playing partners wondering how close I would get to the pin, I duffed my shot, hit the ball off the top lip of the wall which fired the ball straight back at me, hitting me on the inside of my thigh with a resounding thwack before deflecting into my right testicle 
Everybody who saw the shot cringed and it was very nice of the four ball waiting on the tee to ask if I was ok with genuine concern, although it was difficult to see if the were grimacing or smirking :smirk:
I struggled around the next nine holes with my mind elsewhere however three days later with a nasty bruise on my inner thigh, I am still very sore and would strongly recommend that anybody else faced with a similar scenario should do the sensible thing and either hit or move the ball to a position which does not pose any risk to themselves.
The footbridge is a hump backed bridge with a 2 ft decorative wall and my ball landed 2ft or thereabouts from the wall.
The ball had landed on a bare patch of mud and my shot to the green was a 40 yd 60 degree wedge. Although the lie of the ball wasn't good, I was confident that I'd be able to get the ball over the wall without too much of a problem
I was wrong
it's not often I hit two bad shots in a row however with a four ball on the 9th watching and my playing partners wondering how close I would get to the pin, I duffed my shot, hit the ball off the top lip of the wall which fired the ball straight back at me, hitting me on the inside of my thigh with a resounding thwack before deflecting into my right testicle Everybody who saw the shot cringed and it was very nice of the four ball waiting on the tee to ask if I was ok with genuine concern, although it was difficult to see if the were grimacing or smirking :smirk:
I struggled around the next nine holes with my mind elsewhere however three days later with a nasty bruise on my inner thigh, I am still very sore and would strongly recommend that anybody else faced with a similar scenario should do the sensible thing and either hit or move the ball to a position which does not pose any risk to themselves.
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