Golfer shot at San Antonio golf course.

[AmazingWhacker]

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Police-identify-golfer-shot-in-chest-3382468.php

Golf course built next to shooting range - what could possibly go wrong?

[nevets88]

Note to myself: avoid Mission del Lago GC when if looking to play golf in San Antonio.

[clubchamp]

Believe it or not I've played 3 or 4 courses where there was a shooting range right next to it. Actually one course I used to play frequently has shooting range right next to the second hole but they built up a 15 ft mound of dirt all the way around it so you can't see it.

[benredik]

Same thing next to hole 5 on my home course. On a windy day you can hear and see the shotgun slug falling down around you.

[Ballsndrama]

ive played this course about a hundred times. the police have a shooting range near by but it has to be over half a mile a way if not more.  also the shooting range they are refering to is at least two miles away.A stray bullet can go anywhere though, even from a pistol. my son practices there for high school golf. Theres a school and big neighborhood right on the course, i hope this is just a freak accident.  Ive shot a lot of different animals growing up and have never seen a bullet protrude from a wound. bullet must have been shot from a long distance if it didnt embed deeply.

[Dblanton]

If you have any knowledge of bullets whizzing through the air or hitting something at the golf course (or nearby), please call 305-4220 and let us know!  I am helping the guy that was shot out there earlier this month.

[AmazingWhacker]

The golf course is now closed because it happened again.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/2nd-gun-incident-shutters-Mission-Del-Lago-golf-3404316.php

Which, of course, begs the question - why did they not shut it down after the first incident?  Only in TX, man.  Luckily nobody was hit this time.

[Wally Fairway]

  AmazingWhacker said:

Originally Posted by AmazingWhacker

The golf course is now closed because it happened again.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/2nd-gun-incident-shutters-Mission-Del-Lago-golf-3404316.php

Which, of course, begs the question - why did they not shut it down after the first incident?  Only in TX, man.  Luckily nobody was hit this time.

only in Texas would they shut down the public golf course instead of the private shooting range!

[AmazingWhacker]

  Wally Fairway said:

Originally Posted by Wally Fairway

only in Texas would they shut down the public golf course instead of the private shooting range!

Ha - I guess I've been here long enough that I never even considered it a possibility that they would shut down the shooting range!

*from reading the stories, though . .it's actually more likely it's a landowner being careless vs the shooting range.  Again . .only in TX would shooting another person be considered the product of "carelessness".  Other places might call it . .oh, I don't know .. "extreme negligence"?

[Ballsndrama]

Hell yeah man.we love our guns more than golf sometimes lol. shut the course down. i got a hunt coming up.

[ghalfaire]

Seems to me that if it happened twice in a short period of time either the shooting range is out of control and/or poorly designed and/or the shootings were a deliberate act.

[keeps21]

  ghalfaire said:

Originally Posted by ghalfaire

Seems to me that if it happened twice in a short period of time either the shooting range is out of control and/or poorly designed and/or the shootings were a deliberate act.

Totally agree with this.

[Texas solo]

You guys are wusses. I use a 12 gauge to get plugged lies out of a bunker. Welcome to Texas :)

[the19thhole]

Maybe this thread should be combined with the "What'd You Shoot Today? LOL!!!

[ghalfaire]

  Texas solo said:

Originally Posted by Texas solo

You guys are wusses. I use a 12 gauge to get plugged lies out of a bunker. Welcome to Texas :)

You know of course that AZ isn't exactly a bastion of liberalism and we have a few armed citizens ourselves.

[NuclearMike]

  ghalfaire said:

Originally Posted by ghalfaire

You know of course that AZ isn't exactly a bastion of liberalism and we have a few armed citizens ourselves.

I'm with you.  I live in Texas and have friends in Arizona with way more guns than sense.

[Fatphil]

I live in S. Florida and there's a shooting range at a local park that points out into the Everglades.  There is a freeway that runs nearby and there was a hotel/office complex proposed to build on the Everglade side of the freeway...Needless to say a big dust up with the enviromental folks until someone realized that the hotel would have been in a direct line with the target range.  Thus no hotel.

[preisman]

Just saw this post. Hope no one minds me bringing this up. But, I was supposed to play that course on that day. A friend and I decided to try a different course but told no one. So half way though our round our phones blew up with people worried we might have been shot. We could not believe that happened and were happy we made a last minute change.