One California golfer (not the one shown here) is in need of a major Muligan after his swing started a fire that burned 12 acres of the course and surroundings.
It appears that the unnamed golfer hit a rock (presumably with a chipper) that sparked and started the fire. It took 150 fire fighters control the resulting blaze.
Source: Telegraph
Delicious wasteful irony.
It didn’t have to be a lofted club. Today’s drivers, fairway clubs and rescue clubs are often made of titanium. We used to call them woods, but now they’re all made of one metal or another. All one needs is a bit of sand under the grass or rough (even on the tee box) and the titanium will cause a spark as the club makes contact with it.
I wonder if the dude will ever golf again … PTSD could become a problem for him.
I guess these rank together in the,What caused it dept.
Dead plant starts fire at Arkansas home
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/296950
Because California is not Scotland. There are other sports that are developing on converted golf resorts that avoid some of the golf turf issues.
eniobob,
That was an interesting article. It’s been uncharacteristically dry here (around Lake Erie) and I wonder what sort of spontaneous combustion situations are brewing. Dead leaves in large numbers have been falling off the trees since the beginning of July … we are careful where we park our vehicles because of the hot catalytic converters.
lightening
Or he lit up to have a quick smoke and didn’t completely put his cigarette out.
He was having a hot round!
You see even cavemen can play…..I wonder what the par for the hole was?
Oops.
Did I do that?
Damn, something interesting actually happened by playing golf?
Who cares, to hell with it
Just another example of the importance of good spelling.
It’s f-O-r-e, not f-I-r-e.
What’s the line? “Golf course and cemeteries are the biggest wastes of prime real-estate.”
Doesn’t speek well of the “Greens” keepers if the grass was that dry.
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