{"id":1153,"date":"2012-07-25T13:34:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T17:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sierragolfers.com\/blog\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2012-07-25T13:34:31","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T17:34:31","slug":"thunderstorm-warning-to-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierragolfers.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/thunderstorm-warning-to-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderstorm warning to all"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lightning Hits a Golf Bag<\/strong><\/p>\n

A man got hit by lightning Monday morning on a golf course in Madison, WI . The following are pics of what was left of his bag. Please pass this along to your golfing buddies. Read what the policeman says, then take a look at the pictures.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been a police officer for 18 yrs and have seen a lot of gruesome and disturbing scenes. This one was different because it hits close to home and some of us have been in this situation\u201d.<\/p>\n

This 75 year old golfer (no pictures of him) was out on the course with 3 other retired guys for a regular weekly tee time, and the weather forecast didn’t even predict rain at 10pm the night before.<\/p>\n

They teed off and got around to the back nine when it started to rain, and when there was a little lightning way off in the distance so they headed in. They waited under a tree half way in when the rain became very heavy. When it let up a little bit three of them then continued in but one guy decided to wait it out under a 50′ pine with an overhang of 10′ while standing next to his bag.<\/p>\n

Minutes later a lightning bolt struck his bag and push cart as he was holding onto one of his clubs killing him instantly.<\/p>\n

On the top of the first photo you will see what was left of his driver … also in a later photo are little brown clumps which used to be golf balls.<\/p>\n

Most of the items in the bag simply disintegrated from the heat and intense initial zap – including the labels to his ping irons and Cleveland woods (which all popped off). The electricity burned holes into the bottoms of the clubs.<\/p>\n

The strange thing is the tree under which he was standing had no sign of a lightning strike. The bolt literally went sideways under the tree to the golf clubs.<\/p>\n

Lesson to be learned – If you are caught out on the course or water … distance yourself from anything metal OR graphite.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Did you know that lightning rods are often made of graphite?<\/p>\n

Put your cart 50′ away from you!<\/p>\n

When you see lightning off in the distance GO INSIDE \u00a0IMMEDIATELY – DON’T WAIT.<\/p>\n

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………………………..Article contributed by Joey Cruz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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