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WATCH: Man hits, kills duck with drive at TPC Sawgrass
Golf.com ^ | 5/10/17 | Extra Spin Staff

Posted on 05/11/2017 2:56:55 PM PDT by NohSpinZone

A video of a golfer teeing off at TPC Sawgrass has been making the internet rounds, and not because he crushed his drive--he also hit a duck in the process.

It's one of those freak things in life where physics can't explain just how the man's trajectory perfectly synced with the unaware bird's flight path. Unfortunately, the duck fared worse than the player's rinsed tee shot.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Pets/Animals; Sports
KEYWORDS: drive; duck; golfer; killed
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To: NohSpinZone

Hopefully it wasn’t out of season and the upside? No birdshot to pick out before you cook the duck!


21 posted on 05/11/2017 3:40:27 PM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: NohSpinZone

That a real bad duck hook


22 posted on 05/11/2017 3:40:52 PM PDT by DOC44 (Have gun will travel.)
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To: NohSpinZone

I had a set of Ben Hogan’s 20 years ago and my brother took a swing with my 3 wood.

Well, the head of club came off and went flying. Directly behind the flying club head was a bird, who luckily lived.

Funny as hell but, hitting it would been even funnier...


23 posted on 05/11/2017 3:41:44 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Bullish

A bunch of years ago I sliced a wicked drive right into the LSU parking lot while there were thousands of people tailgating.

We drove by real slow in our cart but didn’t see anybody down, so all was good, but it was tense for a while.

I’m dead center Fairway most of the time now.


24 posted on 05/11/2017 3:43:00 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: NohSpinZone

25 posted on 05/11/2017 3:46:25 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: NohSpinZone

I once took out a sea gull surf casting with a 2 ounce pyramid weight. Had to cut loose the whole rig. It was tangled around a dead bird.


26 posted on 05/11/2017 3:46:32 PM PDT by tommythev (No Dick Dale in the R&R HOF? for shame!)
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To: NohSpinZone

Watching Randy Johnson hit a bird with a pitch was enough for me-——I can’t watch.

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27 posted on 05/11/2017 3:48:16 PM PDT by Mears
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To: NohSpinZone
How do you score this drive? Birdie? In baseball, it might be called a fowl ball.

A Mallard.

28 posted on 05/11/2017 3:49:30 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: NohSpinZone
About 20 years ago I was playing golf in Costa Rica. Long par five, dogleg left. Decent drive but on the left edge of the fairway. Caddie said that if I could hit a big hook I could make it to the green in two.

Three wood off the deck, just turned it over a little too much and the ball was heading for a huge tree at the dogleg.

Smacked a Howler Monkey that was in the tree and he fell out of the tree and hit the ground like a sack of cement. I thought I killed the sucker, but he hopped up and climbed back in the tree and he and all of his buddies started howling up a storm.

Caddie convinced me to skip the rest of the hole since the monkeys were really riled up. Came back by on a parallel hole about an hour later and those Howlers were still howling.

29 posted on 05/11/2017 3:51:32 PM PDT by 11Bush
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30 posted on 05/11/2017 3:51:41 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: NohSpinZone

I demand an investigation into whether there was criminal intent on the part of the player.


31 posted on 05/11/2017 4:07:12 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: nickedknack

Sounds like San Francisco rules to me.


32 posted on 05/11/2017 4:33:23 PM PDT by richardtavor
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To: NohSpinZone

Wtf is this idiot? Physics explains it perfectly.


33 posted on 05/11/2017 4:36:00 PM PDT by Seruzawa (FABOL)
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To: NohSpinZone

I think it was at sawgrass that my only memorable golf moment occurred. I don’t golf and believe a golf course is the waste of a perfectly good rifle range.

I was there with a coworker for a meeting. He rented a convertible and we were heading out to dinner. Suddenly I saw something white and had an instant pain in my shoulder. I got hit by a golf ball at 35 mph.


34 posted on 05/11/2017 6:32:11 PM PDT by cyclotic
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To: richardtavor

play the ball where it landed


35 posted on 05/11/2017 7:28:47 PM PDT by octex
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To: NohSpinZone

Has Patty Murry (D, WA) called for speshul persecuter yet?


36 posted on 05/11/2017 8:21:31 PM PDT by tumblindice ("Fight for your country." Hector)
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To: NohSpinZone

At least he didn’t hit an eagle.


37 posted on 05/12/2017 3:42:11 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: BenLurkin

Dave Winfield.

I was at the game and take some, probably undeserved, credit for him being charged.

Reminded the cops that The Rule of Law applies to everyone.

It all worked out well though, 9 years later he became a Blue Jay and a fan favorite

Great guy with an awesome bat and a very accurate throwing arm. :)

Although Billy Martin’s response was...

“They say he hit the gull on purpose? They wouldn’t say that if they’d seen the throws he’d been making all year. It’s the first time he’s hit the cutoff man.”


38 posted on 05/12/2017 5:21:35 AM PDT by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal)
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"It’s the first time he’s hit the cutoff man.”

Good old, Billy. He sure loved showing the super stars who was boss - I don't mean THE Boss.

39 posted on 05/12/2017 9:48:54 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: NohSpinZone

My cousin once hit a dove with his tee shot. Not much left of that poor bird ... feathers went everywhere.


40 posted on 05/12/2017 1:09:17 PM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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