Woman Blinded At Ryder Cup

linktoinsanity · 5 Oct 2018 at 13:23

I feel terrible for the woman, but do not see why the organisers should be sued for it. So unlucky as if the ball had been slightly higher, it would be a head injury and possibly concussion, but not such a horrific life-changing injury.

Can understand her being angry and this is probably where the suing came from.

Shocky-FM · 5 Oct 2018 at 14:46

They should give her complimentary Ryder Cup eye patch and thank her for coming.

Fans take their own risk being there, nobody should be liable if fans get hit by a golf ball.

MikeTimbers · 6 Oct 2018 at 10:12

As many have already said, she should be paying attention, there should be more warnings on the tickets. forced signature on a waiver, etc.

But, it's not rocket science to have a microphone on the teebox with speakers down the fairway so that if the golfer shouts "fore!" (as Brooks did), it would be heard where necessary. Won't eradicate the risk, but it would be an improvement.

Blackjack Davy · 6 Oct 2018 at 15:33

MikeTimbers said:
As many have already said, she should be paying attention, there should be more warnings on the tickets. forced signature on a waiver, etc. speakers down the fairway so that if the golfer shouts "fore!" (as Brooks did), it would be heard where necessary. Won't eradicate the risk, but it would be an improvement.

Yeah but c'mon a very small hard ball travelling at hundreds of miles an hour after being thwacked hard with a golf club... you aren't going to see it coming never mind have time to duck.

Its a very unfortunate accident but one probably bound to happen sooner or later. I'm not sure what the answer is though other than head to toe protective gear for specatators or walling in the course behind perspex barriers neither of which is very practical.

COYS · 6 Oct 2018 at 20:12

I don't blame her for arrrrrrrrrrrrsking for compensation

MikeTimbers · 6 Oct 2018 at 22:36

Blackjack Davy said:
Yeah but c'mon a very small hard ball travelling at hundreds of miles an hour after being thwacked hard with a golf club... you aren't going to see it coming never mind have time to duck.

Its a very unfortunate accident but one probably bound to happen sooner or later. I'm not sure what the answer is though other than head to toe protective gear for specatators or walling in the course behind perspex barriers neither of which is very practical.

Sure you have time to duck. I play golf regularly, hear "FORE!" and cover my head

bowey · 7 Oct 2018 at 01:32

I personally think wrong place wrong time, I suggest wearing safety sunglasses.. will still give you a good wack but it will certainly protect your eye from exploding and they look just like normal sunglasses.

Tefal · 7 Oct 2018 at 04:10

linktoinsanity said:
I feel terrible for the woman, but do not see why the organisers should be sued for it. So unlucky as if the ball had been slightly higher, it would be a head injury and possibly concussion, but not such a horrific life-changing injury.

Can understand her being angry and this is probably where the suing came from.

I suppose the main point is they shouldn't be putting crowds in the line of balls.

Simply keeping them behind the golfers wpuld fix it.

But I'm not sure how the crowds work on golf do they follow the players around or is it like racing where you buy a fixed place to watch from

Blackjack Davy said:
Yeah but c'mon a very small hard ball travelling at hundreds of miles an hour after being thwacked hard with a golf club... you aren't going to see it coming never mind have time to duck.

Its a very unfortunate accident but one probably bound to happen sooner or later. I'm not sure what the answer is though other than head to toe protective gear for specatators or walling in the course behind perspex barriers neither of which is very practical.

Or simply having crowds stay behind the golfers

You don't see the spectators at the biathlon standing behind the targets

MikeTimbers · 7 Oct 2018 at 10:17

Tefal said:
Or simply having crowds stay behind the golfers

You don't see the spectators at the biathlon standing behind the targets

That's not how golf courses work. The spectators behind one set of golfers will be in front of another set of golfers. It's like arguing that the spectators at a football match should be behind the ball.