If there is a will, there is a case

By michelle | Posted on March 6, 2009 | Filed Under Personal Injury 


There have been a couple of times when at a driving range, I swung my wood club with what I thought was perfect form and with a bit of muscle in it, and I look out and don’t see the golf ball land.  After a couple of seconds, and still not seeing the ball drop, I know something’s up – because I’m not good.  And that is when I look behind me.  The next thing to do is to spill your bucket of balls and act like that’s how it got back there.  You can really only do this once per day though.

What to do if you’ve been hit by someone else’s golf ball?  Curse them out!  (Unless they yelled fore.)

What to do if you’ve been hit by your own golf ball?  Pick it up and throw it a distance before anyone notices!  The embarrassment!

Or … you could just sue.  But whom?  Not yourself, obviously.  How about the golf course?  That is what Paul Sanchez, of New Hampshire, decided to do.  His golf ball ricocheted off a yard marker, and hit him in the eye, blinding him.  The golf ball he hit was on the 11th hole and the marker was 150 feet away from him.  (It was a really accurate ricochet!)  The lawsuit claims that the course did not warn of the markers, the markers were too rigid, should have been on the sides of the fairway and golfers were not told the markers were removable during play, and that the golf ball was actually a device operated by aliens trying to abolish golf.*

Sanchez’s attorney was sure to explain that it was not a frivolous case.

Is this kind of like how everyone thinks his/her child is the cutest/smartest/sweetest?  Or that no one thinks their own you-know-what stinks?

Someone needs to tell Sanchez’s attorney that there is such a thing as a case with good facts — I don’t dispute that Sanchez has a very serious injury — but bad law — the golf course didn’t hold a gun up to his head and tell him to swing his club.  On the 11th hole.  Did he really need a warning at that point?

*Not really, but maybe it was.  Maybe.

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