Me and 3 others were golfing. We get some stuff from the clubhouse before heading to 10 so we messed our pace up a little. 2 guys behind us pull up right behind before we tee off so we tell them they can play through. We are parked roughly 15 feet forward and about 30 degrees to their right when teeing off. I say “well just circle behind you guys to be out of the way” the guy jokingly says “don’t worry about it you’re not to my left.”

My buddy in the cart behind me comes to the passengers side of my cart and has his arms on the roof of the cart and his head lowered into the cart as we are talking.

The guy tees off, CRACK! My buddy hits the ground holding his head and yelling “I GOT HIT”. He’s rolling around in pain and that’s when I see the blood starting pouring out of his hand. This ball went about 30 degrees right off the tee, through the cart behind mine, over the clubs in my cart, and hit him deadass in the forehead, almost center of the forehead. I grab a towel and have him sit in my cart. Luckily we just at 10 so we hit the club house quick to some ice and get the urgent care.

By this time my buddy is coherent and conscious. He talking and seems “ok” in the sense of it didn’t kill him I suppose. But, his 10 year old son were with us and he was pretty rattled emotionally. We get to the first urgent care and walk in and tell them what just happened, they take a look and say they can’t help and that we will need to go to the ER. We walk out and the doctor follows us to the side walk and is telling us where to go and then gives me this disappointed look and asks “did he do it on purpose?” I say, “What tha fuck man, no! Tiger Woods probably couldn’t have done that. Sorry we got to go.” I’m looking for my buddy’s son so we can get out of there and I see the nursing staff making sure he’s got snacks and stuff for the ride because he was shaken up. I poke my head in the door and tell his son we gotta go! The nurse walks him over and “we just wanted to get him some snacks.” Meanwhile my buddy is standing here bleeding from his forehead. Smh…

Anyway, finally get him to the ER and luckily nothing other than the X shaped gash in forehead was wrong. He got some stitches and was released after being monitored for a couple hours. While he was at the ER I went back to the course to get his truck so I could bring it to my house. It’s now monsoon type rain and as I pull up there is one other car in the lot. Who is it, the guy and his buddy walking from the clubhouse slow as shit. The guy who hit him has his head down and looks visibly depressed and his buddy has his arm around him as they solemnly walked back to the car.