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<h2 class="vitstoryheadline">Garland golfer dies after fall on Richardson course</h2> <h5 class="vitstorydate">06:53 PM CDT on Saturday, October 3, 2009</h5> By JEFF MOSIER / The Dallas Morning News
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Sherrill Park Golf Course
RICHARDSON — A 61-year-old man was fatally injured Friday after falling over an embankment while trying to retrieve his golf ball at Sherrill Park Golf Course, police said.
The man was identified as William Michael Grant of Garland.
Sgt. Kevin Perlich said Grant was playing in a golf tournament when he overshot a green.
Police said Grant was trying to get the stray ball when witnesses saw him slip and fall about 10 feet.
An ambulance was called for him about 4:15 p.m., and he was pronounced dead about an hour later at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas.
Perlich said it appeared that Grant broke his neck, but that had not been confirmed by the medical examiner's office.
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Death at the course
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Posted 04 October 2009 - 10:27 AM
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Posted 04 October 2009 - 11:17 AM
Rest in Peace Mr. Grant.
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Posted 04 October 2009 - 11:27 AM
Beware of grassy knolls in Dallas...
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Posted 04 October 2009 - 12:11 PM
golf_fanatik, on Oct 4 2009, 12:17 PM, said:
Rest in Peace Mr. Grant.
+2. We don't go to the course expecting it to be our last move in life. Very sad indeed.
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Posted 04 October 2009 - 12:35 PM
Interesting. Most deaths on the golf courses are heart attacks.
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Posted 04 October 2009 - 12:40 PM
Now make fun of people with long ball retrievers.
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Posted 04 October 2009 - 01:16 PM
My home course is very mountainous and many times if you miss the fairway you're faced with a steep drop off in heavy brush/woods. They have these signs posted "keep out: sensitive environmental area".
Fact is it isn't a sensitive environmental area at all; it is just an area where trying to retrieve your ball could likely result in you taking a header down the steep terrain.
Management feels golfers will heed warnings about the environment more than ones about their own safety; and they're probably right.
Fact is it isn't a sensitive environmental area at all; it is just an area where trying to retrieve your ball could likely result in you taking a header down the steep terrain.
Management feels golfers will heed warnings about the environment more than ones about their own safety; and they're probably right.
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Posted 04 October 2009 - 09:10 PM
Wow that was my home course growing up. Even more weird, as a 15 year old cart boy, I gave CPR to a gentleman who had a heart attack on the 16th hole teebox on course two, unfortunately he didnt make it. RIP, and prayers out to this gentlemans family.
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Posted 05 October 2009 - 09:29 AM
wow, thats terrible. RIP, and atleast he died while doing what he loved (playing golf), instead of something else....
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