(05-03-2021 08:57 AM)Statefan Wrote:  

(05-03-2021 08:45 AM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  

(05-03-2021 08:28 AM)esayem Wrote:  6,357 for golf???

That’s an awful lot of people getting beamed in the head.

The first time I attempted to give a golf lesson to a woman who was under 5' 4" but with really big boobs, she hit me in the chest with a shanked ball. I was standing 10' behind her because I did not trust her swing to start with given the way she had to stand over the ball. She cold topped the damn thing and it hit me. I've seen people's ears split wide open, noses split wide open, and lips split wide open by golf balls. I once watched a person break out a window on a parked car when they shanked their tee shot off the ball washer and it careened back toward the parking lot.

That's not including what the pro-shop and golf cart boys do when no one is around and they are hitting shots off the sidewalk, inside the pro shop, in the cart shed, etc, etc.

Finally there are the thrown clubs that because of the weight on the end of the club cause the club to spin and hit the thrower.

I have even seen a person hit with the head of their own driver when the club broke at the hozzle but stayed attached with the whipping - it unraveled about 5 feet and then snapped back and hit him in the wrist.

Your story reminded me of my friend who played at LSU in the early 90’s. She was/is gifted. Nicest set of…well I digress . Anyway she grew up next door to Denny Crum.

Denny would ask her “how she could swing a club with those things hanging in from of her” …

Her Mom told me Denny would always ask to pair up with her when they played. Her Mom refused to allow it, calling him “an old dirty ba$tard”.

My friend was eventually First Team All SEC so those things didn’t cause any problems with her swing.