Once upon a time in Florida (Photo courtesy of The Miami Herald).
I am going to prove that golf is the most dangerous sport. How? By conducting the least thorough scientific research I’ve ever done (i.e., the first five pages of Google).
Of course as The Forkball’s Tailgate Update fans know, I study true crime in all sports regularly. There is no other sport that appears to be the most dangerous to the general public. As we know, all contact sports are dangerous to the people who play them. However, their damage to the general public is lower. Golf targets everyone in many different ways.
Don’t believe me? Alright, read on!
The First Five Pages
In just five pages, there are:
- There are eight different cases of individuals dying on or near a golf course or their bodies being dumped at a course after already being killed.
- In four cases, golf clubs were used as weapons in an attack.
- Five separate times, people were chased by police through a course or arrested after a chase at a course.
- There were four separate incidents of golf equipment being maimed by individuals (that probably doesn’t include bent clubs after using them as a weapon).
- In six different cases, there were people injured (and not killed) on or near a course.
- One case showed there was a golf cart-related injury.
- Last but not least, in one of the more wild stories, one individual was in a police chase while driving a golf cart. In this case, after a chase so slow it would make OJ Simpson proud, the driver was apprehended uninjured, as was their dog.
Golf Related Hazards
All things considered it’s hard to offer a solution on how to avoid being in a golf-related incident. I would stay off the courses, avoid people wielding clubs, avoid carts on the road, and probably not invest too much in golf equipment.
Undeniably unhelpful advice for one of my least scientific research projects ever. Certainly, if any avid golfers have advice out there, let us all know.
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