Golf balls

[NoRush]

Anyone had there van window smashed by a golf ball while driving down the road. Scared the cr*p out of me and my 6 year old son and it was on the 13th

[White Noise]

Wow your lucky the Golf ball did not cause you to crash ? Used to look after the nearby golf course trees . Until the new head green keeper decided that the members could T off right next to a section of willows we were working on ?

Stupid really as one member hit the chipper with a stray ball and the next ball dented the side of the truck . Job got called off in the end . Head green keeper was embarrassed and we got our day rate ; )

[eggsarascal]

Not whilst driving! I used to look after a pumping station on a golf course just out side of Bury-st-Edmunds. Copped a golf ball straight through the drivers side window.

[daltontrees]

I had to call off a survey of golf course trees and come back on a quiet dqy after morning tee-offs. A guy on the third tee sliced the ball so badly that it screamed off at right angles to the fairway and pinged off a tree just above my head. I was 150 metres away, and the shot was so physically impossible that I assumed the guy had seen me in the trees and turned around 90 degrees and hit it deliberately straight at me for a laugh. I was all up for a serious altercation. However, the guy that was with me surveying trees from behind the tee saw it all and said that the guy's drive was just genuinely appalling.

 

Second incident a few weeks ago I was surveying another golf course 10 miles away, couple of muppets tee-ed off, quite recklessly pruning the willow over our heads. This time a dreadful slice. That unannounces 'thwhitt' abov eh the head, you look up and see a clutch of leaves floeating down from overhead. We had to time the rest of the survey to miss tee-offs.

 

I think I would do a risk assessment for working near golf courses. Public courses, add 50% changce of gettting hit. On a Sunday morning, the faint hint of whisky hangover breath drifting downwind to the defenceless surveyor, add another 49%.

[IanW]

if golfers are members of a course they automatically have insurance if I remember correctly, not sure about the ones that pay and play on municipal courses though, good for thought if your the unlucky sod that gets hit as I seem it happen and it bloody hurts!

Ian

[IanW]

Anyone had there van window smashed by a golf ball while driving down the road. Scared the cr*p out of me and my 6 year old son and it was on the 13th

 

I'd go to the club house of the corse and put a official complaint in mate, you should get compensated for

Ian

[RobRainford]

Not had anything through the window but had this one fired at my leg by the stump grinder. Left a hell of a bruise! Right on my inner thigh.

 

 

[Hodge]

I was once playing golf with a mate when he sliced it off the t and the ball hit a women who was walking along a path near by, he was a great shot as he got her right in the lady garden area, nearl a hole in one!

 

 

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[daltontrees]

That could have been a whole lot worse a foot higher!!!

[RobRainford]

That could have been a whole lot worse a foot higher!!!

 

Your telling me!

 

The bruise 2 days later. This wasnt its worst! No other pics though!