I wonder if this guy can sue?
Anyway you can hear it and the announcers are funny.
I wonder if this guy can sue?
Anyway you can hear it and the announcers are funny.
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But I doubt very much he could sue, as he was knowingly in a position where he could get hit.
You can't blame the golfer, he's just doing his "job"
You can however blame the organizer for not having enough safety buffer between the visitors and the playing field... or however you call that in golf.
But I am sure this guy knew he could get hit anyway, just like you can get hit by a football during a football match as long as the stadium doesn't have a safety net behind the goal.
There's probably some kind of waiver you have to sign to get that close.
Highly doubt it. But damn, I'd be so confused as to what the hell happened.
I don't think he can sue, the guy didn't deliberately interfere with play.
lol put my speaker volume right up didn't hear a thing...damn youtube on silent and it's not showing the little x on the speaker icon lol >.<
Deliberate outside interference is probably against the laws of the game, as it is in most other sports.
Otherwise you could just pay people to run onto the course, grab your ball and slam dunk it in the hole - there is some sort of double entendre there, but I can't be bothered to rephrase it.
This is pretty much exactly that.
The corden denotes the edge of play and where the audience is sitting is out of bounds, so it is in the best interests of the golfer to never hit it out that far anyway. Looking at the course from where it landed, the ball went too far left, or too far forward, of where the golfer would have wanted it to go (notice the bunker right in front of the audience). Pretty much a freak accident maybe caused by a gust or just a really poor drive.
It happens every now and again, like Rory McIlroy hitting a guy last year.
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Could he really sue for something like this? Seriously in Denmark if he even tried to sue people would just look at him and say: "shit happens, you chose to go to the golf match, and got unlucky. Tough luck".
damn you think he's gonna suffer something permanent? i always thought i hit like that would crack your skull open.
Well that was disappointing, I expected it to be worse I guess... :P
I'm sure it hurt, but it just didn't get any reactions out of me. Other than "guess that hurt a bit".
In baseball, your ticket specifically will say (usually on the back, or part of the terms when you buy it) you're waiving all liability claims for any thrown bats, balls, etc. And they announce it several times before the game. I've never been to golf, but I'd guess it's the same. "Assumption of risk" would be the legal defense for the golf pro, organizers, or whoever if that spectator decided to sue, if there wasn't such a liability waiver.