When Your Golf Shot is on Fire, Literally
Golf is a tough game to play. You need to practice and basically dedicate your life to perfecting the various golf swings you need to truly play the game (as opposed to hack golfers like myself who play, but really aren't playing).
When things are rolling along, you feel like you can hit the ball a ton and you're hitting every chip shot, runner and putt. Sometime, your clubs are on fire.
In the case of a California golfer, his shot literally caused a fire.
"Fire!" was the cry of the day for a golfer whose off-target swing sparked a 12-acre blaze in Southern California.
The golfer at the Shady Canyon Golf Course in Irvine landed a shot in the rough Saturday. On his next swing, his club snagged a rock, causing a spark that lit the rough ablaze and eventually attracted 150 firefighters to the scene.
Fire officials say the fire burned through the rough, into vegetation next to the course and over two dry, brushy hillsides.
No charges were filed against the golfer, whose name was withheld.Talk about having a bad day on the course.
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