http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/5720299/

I couldn't find any previous reference to this, but attached is a link to the article. To summarize, a HS golfer whacked his club into the cart after a bad shot, which then breaks and boomerangs back to impale his stomach and a bit of intestine (about 6" deep). He's expected to recover. All of this happened in front of this teammates/playing partners. It should make you think twice about smacking the bag after a bad shot.

FYI, one of the kid's playing partners that day was Clark Rose, who is former PGA Tour winner Clarence Rose's son.

The course that this happened on was also my team's home course in HS. And no, we didn't behave very well on the course either as teenagers, and were lucky nothing like this happened. I specifically remember snapping a putter as a 16 year old on the same course, before I wised up. Also at around the same time I had a driver snap at the hosel in my follow through, flying 80 yds into the woods and fortunately not at any people.

don't they teach patience and self control at Christian school?

Kid just missed being featured on Spike TV's "1000 ways to die."

I've broken off 3 clubheads in my life and had clubs slip out of my hands twice that I can recall (rain and wynn grips don't mix well!). This is why I never swing the club towards anyone.

He's on a ventilator......

Ridiculous actions cause ridiculous injuries. Don't be dumb.

He could have put an eye out.

There was a guy at a country club here in AL that got tired of slicing his driver. He slammed it into the ground and the shaft snapped, spun up, and impaled him in the thigh. He got ridiculed for it even more so because he tried to tell the manufacturer (callaway) that it happened on a normal swing and he was going to sue. None of his playing partners were willing to collaberate his story.

The moral of these stories is that you should always take careful aim and throw your clubs as far into the woods as possible in order to aviod injuring yourself or others.

I seem to remember a case where a golfer died after being impaled by a club a few years ago. Whether in temper or purely by accident, the chap impaled himself in groin - or, more specifically and more unfortunately, in the femoral artery - with one half of the broken shaft and bled to death out on the course. He was playing alone, in an evening, and consequently his body wasn't discovered until early the next morning.

It's a one in a million job, but certainly should serve as a warning to Tommy Bolt-types.