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happened to me last year!

Playing with my buddy and on the 3th tee out of no where starts showering like no tomorrow, so we pulled out our umbrellas and were hoping to wait it out.

Then came the blinding lightening that scared us to death.

Very scary, here we are, surrounded by trees, holding golf clubs made of one the best conducting materials, umbrellas, and we thought we were going to die.

We booked it out of there, left our clubs and found the nearest shelter.


It is no joke, protect yourselves and never play in thunderstorm weather. Golf has the highest death rates from lightening deaths.

Don't go underneath trees, try to find low lying areas and not be in an open area. The best thing to find is SEEK SHELTER! There is no better advice than that. Run to shelter, golf carts are not where you want to be in a lightning storm.
But if that's impossible, crouch down as low as you can with your feet together and hands on your knees trying to touch as little of the ground as possible.

This might sound ridiculous but it really is a serious threat, hundreds die each year getting struck playing golf...


http://golf.about.com/cs/golffitness...ningsafety.htm