Have you been hit by your own ball?

[bigoak]

Have you been hit by your own ball or seen someone else hit by their own errant shot? Today a guy hit a stone tee marker and the ball bounced straight back at him.

[jonjones]

I hate to admit it, but, yes. On a 140 yard par 3 I hit off to the right of an elevated bunker. The bunker has a stone retaining wall about 18” tall. I proceeded to hit with my 58 degree and skulled it. The ball hit the wall and flew straight back at me. Let's just say I wasn’t having a good day.

[NM Golf]

I have never been hit myself, but my uncle lost his right eye in an incident. He topped a shot, it went and hit the forward tee marker, and came back and hit him in the eye. He has a glass eye now because of it. Ouch!!

[scottevans77]

I haven't technically been hit by my own ball, but I have caught it. I was in the rough off the right side of the fairway with some trees near by. I hit my 56 degree wedge to know it out and I shanked it into one of the trees, the ball kind of just bounced in the air back toward me and I instinctively just grabbed it out of the air.

[v3rs3]

I once hit a tree about 40 yards out and it came right back in the same line that it left and landed right at my feet. It came pretty close to hitting me.

[I KyotE I]

Well I sent a ball to a friend on the first tee box. He took a practice swing and his words where "Wow this is gonna be bad." I was standing not 5* in front and too the right of him and he swings and the ball goes dead right. I was like 5 feet away so I didn't have time to react and BAM! to the eye. They where laughing until I got off my knees and started to walk up to the clubhouse...when my entire face was covered in blood. Suprisingly it didn't really hurt like I would have thought before it would I got up after making sure that I could see out of my eye. that was my big concern. I started walking in circles trying to figure out what to do. I drove and the other people where too young and the one that could drive I had just met as he is family of my playing partener and I didn't know if he drove standard. Call my parents on one phone call 911 on another. I remeber all of it and never blacked out or anything. I did stat to go into shock about the time that they put that IV with the good stuff in it. Still I don't know how I managed to get up and walk around after that.

I don't post pics but here is PB site. the 9 stitches on was about a week nad a half after. it's about the only good pic I have on this computer and I am away from home.

http://s399.photobucket.com/albums/pp80/IKyotEI/

Moral to the story is stand back...Golf ball vs. human face = Golf ball always and human never. Oh well I was young, still am but that is one mistake that I won't have to deal with now.

[rgoudy1975]

I haven't technically been hit by my own ball, but I have caught it. I was in the rough off the right side of the fairway with some trees near by. I hit my 56 degree wedge to know it out and I shanked it into one of the trees, the ball kind of just bounced in the air back toward me and I instinctively just grabbed it out of the air.

I assume you counted a two stroke penalty?

[julie_m]

I once teed up and hit a tree about five feet forward and to the right of me...it bounced off and hit another tree next to it, bouncing back and hitting the first one, back and forth again...in a comic pinball sort of scene like you see in cartoons.

Would you believe I did it again? The third time was cute...

I hit that same shot FIVE times in a row. Josh was amazed. I was so pissed I picked up the ball and threw it onto the fairway. A rare lapse in composure, I assure you.

[Dub]

Not yet...........but the day is young.

[titaniummd]

A friend shanked his ball into a tree and it came towards him. As he tried to catch him, it hit him in the jewels. Damn funniest thing I ever saw.

[Fraser]

Have you been hit by your own ball?

It's about the only dumbass thing I

haven't done on the golf course

[ScottRempel]

Haven't hit myself...yet...but I did watch a friend top a ball so bad on hard ground that it bounced straight up and almost hit him in the head. Also, during an outing earlier this year a bunch of us were standing around the tee box watching one of our friends tee off...he hits a tee shot straight at a tree, it comes flying back, bounces off a few things, including one of the carts and finally comes to a rest. Thankfully it someone bounced in between the 6 or 7 of us that were standing there.

[Shindig]

One of my first times playing, I was stymied behind a tree relative to the green. I thought I could get a S-wedge shot to go around the tree. Long story short - I couldn't, and I got hit in the chest.

[Awsi Dooger]

Absolutely. And probably the weirdest experience I've ever had on a golf course.

I was maybe 12 or 13, playing an executive course in southwest Miami called Kendale Country Club. The second par 4 was #5, about 350 yards dogleg left. My drive was in proper position, between the tree lines, one on each side. I had maybe a 7 iron to the green.

I hit it hard but too low and to the right, about 15 yards off line, smack into the high trees on the right, about 40 yards away. Those trees weren't continuous from the tee. They started beyond where my tee shot had ended. It wasn't dense forest. You could always follow the ball when it hit in those trees.

Anyway, none of us saw the outcome. My friends and I were baffled. There were several sentences among us; "Where did it go?", that type of thing, a significant delay of thinking and wondering. I was turning to look further to the right when the ball hit me plunk in the upper chest. It wasn't hard at all. It was a glancing blow from above. The darn ball must have ricocheted severely upward and none of us were looking high enough. Then it miraculously returned almost to the exact spot it had been struck.

One of my friends was immediately skeptical. He couldn't believe it was the same ball, certain it had come from the adjacent par 3, but that made no sense at all, too far away. I showed him the ball, a Titleist like I always played, and it was definitely mine, but he was a math whiz and refused to believe something had defied probability to that extreme.

[adams603]

I have been hit by someone elsea ball though. I was standing in the fairway waiting for the green to clear and my buddy tees off and hits me on the back of my leg.
Another time four of us were on the tee box of a par three waiting for the group ahead of us to finish. My one buddy is at the front of the box facing us gently swinging his club as we talk. Then he decides to take a full swing and hits a huge divot at one of the other guys and it busts him in his package. I laughed the rest of the round because the guy that got hit had on white shorts and had a big mud stain on his groin.

[not yet satisfied]

LOL, just practice waffle balls.

[Dub]

Last month we had a large group of guys from work get together on a day off after a stressful workweek and play.

It was great to see everyone gathered around the putting green and practice range getting warmed up and breathing easy. We all had a few days off...this being the first of them.

One of the guys...a single digit....took the lead and drew lots for groupings for all of us. Worked out splendidly. I was paired up with a guy whose game is simular to mine in that we both were much better golfers 4-8 years ago and just getting back into it. Our games are on the rebound.

We had some interesting holes....he seemed to draw the ball much more than I did those first few holes so we spent a lot of cart time together...laughing at ourselves.

He was also sucking down Bud Lights at a respectable rate...his bag seemed to have an endless supply stashed in there.

Anyway...we became swing coaches for each other at some point after I started having a few brews on the back nine.

One particular hole, a long dogleg, I hit my best drive of the day. He stood really close to my ball as I was lining up for my preshot routine. Apparently he polished off his beer and was moving to put the can in the cart and reload. I began my routine and pulled the trigger on shanked 6 iron....the ball went directly where he had been standing....about groin high. I suppose you can say he was saved by Bud Light.

[hamletsdead]

Haven't hit myself yet, but have smacked a tree trying to punch out and had the ball fly back right past me like enemy gunfire.

And today my playing partner teed off while I was walking down the tee-box to the tips, and just as I was saying "I got your ball" he pulled it viciously left right at me and I dove sideways into the scruff. That was not what I meant by "I got your ball." Good thing I was looking, though, or I would have been completely creamed.