New Jersey golfer dies after tree falls on him as he attempts to retrieve errant ball

AP ^ | April 15, 2013

[C. Edmund Wright]

Yes - very common for a house to line the golf course. Happens all the time (retreiving balls from private yards - not trees falling on them).

[TChad]

I thought it must have been a eucalyptus tree, but apparently not.

Eucalyptus trees sometimes self-amputate branches, sometimes large branches, much to the surprise of people walking beneath them.

[twister881]

Loose impediment or movable obstruction?

[Palio di Siena]

Hopefully, they let the group behind play through.

[Dixie Yooper]

/Hopefully, they let the group behind play through.

2 stroke penalty if he had already been put on the clock for slow play...

[Recon Dad]

Of course......it's in OB and gets a stroke, a drop and and another stroke for also slow play....

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Golfers should wear helmets...watch for a hearing and proposed legislation.

[Palio di Siena]

Hope he doesn’t sign an incorrect score card.

[OldPossum]

I guess if you are not right next to the errant tree (as I am when using a chain saw), identification and selection of a proper course of action is more difficult.

I can relate to that. I have over 30 years of experience with a chain saw (consumer use) and one time I was cutting down a tree, using the proper procedure, when the tree started spinning--yes, spinning--on its trunk. I had no idea of the direction in which it was going to fall, so I just decided to run one way and luckily for me, it was one of the right ways.

[latina4dubya]

Of course......it's in OB and gets a stroke, a drop and and another stroke for also slow play....

i read that and for some reason, heard it in the voice of Charlie Brown's parents... :)

[shotgun]

More like a bad drop.