A Shane Lowry shot from the tee struck a person throughout Sunday’s AT&T Pebble Seaside Professional-Am.
Throughout his tee shot on the fifteenth gap, Lowry hit his ball 297 yards simply to the appropriate of the green and struck a event volunteer who had been standing on that aspect of the course.
The person, who had been carrying a blue golf shirt and black cap, gave the impression to be struck within the left shoulder and crumpled to the bottom in ache virtually instantly.
The ball bounced and rolled up one other a number of yards earlier than lastly coming to a cease.
The announcers on the CBS broadcast reported that the volunteer had been OK regardless of getting hit with the ball.
Lowry reportedly caught a bit of bit of warmth on the Sky Sports activities broadcast from commentator Andrew Coltart, who felt the Irishman might have accomplished extra to warn the particular person struck by the ball.
“Didn’t hear him shout ‘fore’. We need to be hearing players shout ‘fore’,” Coltart mentioned on the printed, in line with talkSPORT.
Lowry ended the Pebble Seaside Professional-Am ending in second place taking pictures 4-under par within the closing spherical of the event and developing simply in need of Rory McIlroy.
Lowry had seen his share of the lead slip away on the sixth gap after he despatched his second shot over a cliff on the sixth gap.
He completed with a 68 within the closing spherical after taking pictures 31 on the again 9.
McIlroy took management of the lead on the tenth gap when he sunk an 18-foot birdie putt.
“It’s a really cool way to start the season,” McIlroy mentioned, in line with the Related Press. “To get this win this early means a great deal, and hopefully I’ll keep the momentum going into Torrey Pines in a couple weeks’ time.”
