Perhaps a Foot Wedge Was In Order

I know we don't have many golfers on the board, but I watched this video a couple of times and I "hurt" with him.
Years ago when I played, I hit a tree about 20 yards in front of me and the ball came directly at my head. Luckily I was able to get out of the way.

http://www.golfchannel.com/news/grill-room/video-sunshine-tour-golfer-takes-one-family-jewels/

 

About the 3rd or 4th time I ever played when I was 15 I hit a drive that went about 60 or 70 yards and then took a 90 degree right turn. A guy was just looking from behind a tree and jumped back or the ball would have hit him right in the head.

 

Many years ago, a buddy of mine cold ass shanked a PW into my left butt cheek from about 10 - 15 yards. It left a golf ball sized bruise that remained for a month. I shutter to think about the pain if you got hit with a solid shot to the groin.

 

I draw an imaginary line perpendicular to the line where I'm trying to hit a ball. If you're in front of that line, you're in the kill zone and I have no responsibility for what happens.

What I'm trying to say is, you shouldn't have been standing where you were.

 

Back when I was a 20-something hack just trying to get my game together to where I was decent, my uncle and I were playing a $5 a hole type skins games. We had gone all square on few holes, so the skin was like $20 or something. So on the next hole, I tee off and slice my drive into the woods. I then decided to use my one mulligan and did the same damn thing and sliced into the woods. I got so pissed that I slung my driver back towards the cart. The club actually hit the roof of the cart, snapped in two, and sent the shaft hurtling back towards me, end over end, like someone throwing a knife. It came about a foot away from impaling me right in the throat. Lesson learned.

 

Playing at Webb Park when I was about 21 I hit my tee shot on a par 3 hole that is in the corner of College Dr and Foster Dr where they meet. The ball landed to the left of the green on Foster, bounced up and hit a passing car that deflected the ball back up and over an 8 foot chain link fence and back onto the green about 10 feet from the hole.

 

Did you make the putt?

 

Yes. For the birdie. Not sure if it's legal or not.

 

I would think so. Falls under the rub of the green definition in my mind.

 

Since we are talking about golf, former LSU player Smylie Kaufman won the PGA tournament in Las Vegas yesterday. He shot a 61 to win in only his 5th PGA event ever and won $1,152,000