Sinkhole swallows golfer

[Old Fart]

WATERLOO, Ill. -- It sure wasn’t the hole-in-one Mark Mihal had in mind, reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

While golfing with friends at the Annbriar Golf Course near here Friday, Mihal, 43, a Missouri mortgage broker, abruptly dropped into the ground on the fairway of the 14th hole.

In this cell phone image taken March 8, 2013 and provided by golfmanna.com, Hank Martinez, top, Ed Magaletta, right, and Russ Nobbe, look into an 18-foot-deep and 10-foot- wide sinkhole that golfer Mark Minhal fell into while playing golf at the Annbriar Golf Course in Waterloo, Ill. Mihal, 43, a mortgage broker from Creve Coeur, Mo., was hoisted to safety with a rope and suffered a dislocated shoulder. (AP Photo/Courtesy of golfmanna.com, Mike Peters)

It was the first time a person — and not a ball — has disappeared beneath the turf in the course’s 20-year history.

 

[Old Fart]

 

[dennishoddy]

I would have nightmares for a long time after that.

 

[n8thegr8]

If that hole is 10 foot wide, those guys must be giants!

 

[Arin Morris]

Devil grabbed the wrong golfer in my opinion.

 

[JKClay]

If that hole is 10 foot wide, those guys must be giants!

Most sink holes are bell shaped so they are probably talking about the width inside the hole.

 

[Old Fart]

I want no part of this silly game.

 

[rr2008]

imagine how many sink holes like this occur that go unreported. guy was probably glad he was on the fairway with friends rather than walking to deer stand in the dark one morning.

 

[ignerntbend]

Golf is a sink hole in its self.
"It's like watching flies F***"
--George Carlin

 

[caojyn]

I know I'm not supposed to laugh, but this is pretty darn funny