Argument leads to scuffle on the golf course – Golf News
The game of golf rarely witnesses arguments during a game leading to serious consequences in the end, such as those the 48-year-old Texan, Clay Carpenter, suffered last month at a golf resort at Eagle Mountain Lake in Tarrant County, Texas on January 27,
2012.
He was playing in a threesome match when he found another foursome team playing slowly on the course ahead of his team.
Therefore, they were a hindrance in their way to progress in the game. To proceed, he asked the foursome team to let his team, which was playing faster, to play through.
The slower team refused to accept their request and the argument lead to a scuffle between Carpenter and the accused member of the other team.
According to the victim, the member of the foursome team allegedly stabbed him in the thigh with a broken shaft of a golf club.
The incident inflicted serious consequences in the form of wounds. It was reported by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that he was recovering from 'a punctured femoral artery and massive blood loss' for the last one month.
Terry Grisham, a spokesman for the Tarrant County Sheriff's Department told the reporters that he was taken to the Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital just after 911 received a call by one of the members of the accused team.
He said that the accused member tried to hide the facts by labelling it a natural incident.
“He fell on a golf club or something. He's passed out once already. We have got his artery clamped with our hand. We don't know this guy. They were golfers behind us. He's not in our group,” the accused member said on a call to 911 at the time of the incident.
On the contrary, Carpenter completely rejected his claim and told that he was stabbed by the member of the foursome team after the club employee asked them to let carpenter’s team play through them.
“People get in arguments every day on every golf course in America,” Carpenter told the reporters. “But 99.9 per cent of the time no one takes it this far”.
Carpenter told the reporters that muscles in his lower leg went dead because of heavy blood loss during the recovery process.
"If it does not regenerate it will be no good to me. I may never be able to lift my feet up again,” he said.
Moreover, he can never run again as he has to wear a brace on his leg forever. This will prevent him from running, which he loved to do in his routine life.
Grisham has confirmed that there is an active criminal investigation in progress and the victim will get justice soon.
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