Be careful out there folks

[davepratt]

A golfer has been struck by lightning at Royal Woodbine Golf Club. E.M.S. officials say the victim is conscious and breathing. Sent at 4:35 pm.

[Thlife]

I'm on my out to play soon. No worries though the course is the highest point in the area so I should be safe. :cookoo: Thanks for the info, I'll play it safe it doesn't look friendly.

[sharkhark]

A golfer has been struck by lightning at Royal Woodbine Golf Club. E.M.S. officials say the victim is conscious and breathing. Sent at 4:35 pm.

Played there yesterday and was very concerned about the threat of lightning before the round. Asked the guy in office alot of questions as the weather network looked like a ton of threatening stuff coming gta way but possibly going to miss it.
Sure enough we played entire round with nothing more than 1 minute of rain, 10 minutes of high winds....but....
.........but......placed as straight paying customers.....in the middle...yes middle....of a tournament.........6 hour round.....ouch...ouch...were we sweaty, tired and frustrated.

Re today, hope everyone heeds a warning....rain players are one thing....lightning is a whole other animal.

[landlord]

If you get cornered, just hold up a 1-iron.

[esidirop]

If you get cornered, just hold up a 1-iron. I guess not even mother nature can hit a 1 iron lol..

I played in front of the shark yesterday at RW and saw lighting around us, but no over us... very surprised they didnt call us off....

Are they liable for incidents like this?

[davepratt]

.........but......placed as straight paying customers.....in the middle...yes middle....of a tournament.........6 hour round.....ouch...ouch...were we sweaty, tired and frustrated.

They owe you a free pass. That's absolute BS to stick you in the middle of a tournament.

[sharkhark]

They owe you a free pass. That's absolute BS to stick you in the middle of a tournament.

I was so tired I did not even want to waste one more minute getting out of there. Only pleasurable thing was meeting a fellow lmg'r Dave, who is a cool guy and running into esidirop who is also a lmgr and someone i enjoyed playing with once before.
I did send an email. I was not going to bother but they have always been pretty friendly in customer service so we will see.
I never outright even asked for a free pass, just passed on my experience so I will post eventually on what they do (or don't do).
We had a LMG rate which was cheap compared to usual, but I think all too often we feel that because we paid a discount we deserve a less than enjoyable round...and it....was.....brutal.........

UPDATE! Added note. Mgr emailed to aplogize and provide a complimentary replay to make up. What a cool guy Jay the mgr is. Top notch:thumbs_up

[Cybergolfer]

I noticed that up Pipers Heath when it started to look bad the Marshalls carried Fog Horns.

[The Troll]

A golfer has been struck by lightning

That teach him for slow play....

[cdnputter]

A golfer has been struck by lightning at Royal Woodbine Golf Club. E.M.S. officials say the victim is conscious and breathing. Sent at 4:35 pm.

I was playing Baxter Creek yesterday and we got caught in the furthest possible place from the Clubhouse.... when we finally made it in, a very nice elderly gentleman asked if we heard the horn. "No sir, but we knew to come in after having lightning flash in the fairway beside us" I nearly shat myself, even checked for sharding...:cookoo:

[goshawk]

I was playing Baxter Creek yesterday and we got caught in the furthest possible place from the Clubhouse.... when we finally made it in, a very nice elderly gentleman asked if we heard the horn. "No sir, but we knew to come in after having lightning flash in the fairway beside us" I nearly shat myself, even checked for sharding...:cookoo:
Now aren't you glad you weren't using metal spikes?!

[cdnputter]

Now aren't you glad you weren't using metal spikes?!

LOL, that wouldn't have helped with the possible sharding.....:cool:

Seriously though, I've been scared before but not quite like that in a long time. :eek:

[goshawk]

Believe me, I understand. I had a near miss in Maryland. I was at a picnic in a park when one of those sudden t-storms blew up. Just before it started raining we got a strike at the baseball field. Most of us felt the "pre-strike" where you actually feel the current. Most of us dropped flat immediately and the strike hit a metal fence post in the outfield about 20 feet away. Melted the post. It took me 2 hours before my hearing was back to normal, and I had to throw away my underwear! :eek: