*B "You hit that guy..." *DB "Your joking?" *B "Why would I joke about that?"

B=Myself
DB=Douche Bag

I played golf yesterday afternoon, first game of the year, beautiful day, had a good time.

One thing happened though. I saw a guy get hit in the head with a golf ball. Seriously thought he was dead for a moment. We had a foursome and were walking, a threesome in carts was behind us. We were not holding them up at all, in fact we were playing real fast, but after 9, even though we had already hit our drives they wanted to play through. Was not necessary but we let just cause who cares? It was a nice Saturday so what does it matter.

Now when you ask to play through you now have 4 guys watching you tee off, would of been good if even one of them hit the fairway, not the case though. One of them is trailing off to the left and you can see a few guys standing down there playing on an opposite fairway, sort of in the trees lining the two holes. Most people would call "four" at this time.

Sure its an odd thing to say in an attempt to allow a fellow golfer a chance to shield whatever part of his/her body he/she deems most worthy of said shielding. But who am I or anyone else to question common ettiquette and for that matter an absolute must when the safety of someone else is involved.

So DB nor any of his friends give any warning to the group playing on the other hole. Now picture this a ball is hit and about 250 yards away the sound is still quite audible to us up near the tee. It was a thud of monstrous proportions. It sounded like when you jump of a diving board and as you enter the water you are wacking a pool noodle as hard as you can against said water. That kind of a thud, only it was not compressed foam and H2O, it was a rock hard, aerodynamic ball and a mans skull. The guy dropped immediately. It was not an ouch my head hurts I am going to drop to the ground like I play Serie A Italian soccer (sorry "football"). No, he dropped like mike tyson just punched him in the jaw. Knees buckled, out like a light, "where am I" droppage. No one says anything.

I say "You hit that guy..."
The response I get was "Your joking?"
I reply "Why would I joke about that?"

Now the guys buddies are running over to see if he was alright. And these morons who just were responsible for maybe killing the guy are more worried about hitting their remaining shots before going to see if the mans okay. BTW, hes still out like a light on the ground.

The last thing the guy says before heading out there is, "I hope they dont pick up my ball". ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!?! You could of killed the guy and your worried about a golf ball? Now okay golf balls can be expensive, sometimes i will hit $6 Pro V1's but come on, i would sacrifice a $6 ball to make sure someone is still breathing.

Anyways, the guy did get up, real happy about that. Could of been a much worse situation if he did not. Never thought I would see that.

A Plea...If you are golfing and you are a mucker, like basically everyone without some professional tour card is, you are going to have bad shots. Please do the right thing and warn others who are just trying to enjoy a nice day on the course of the potential death strike rocketing toward them by saying one simple word in your outside voice, "Four!" That is all you have to do, ya it is a dumb word but your dumb if you dont yell it when you should.