Errant golf swing sets course on fire - Aug 2010
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So you think that you're the world's worst golfer? With all due respect, your swing -- crappy as it may be -- has never set off a raging inferno like this.
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The golfer who did this has asked that his name be withheld, and with good reason. He'd never hear the end of it ("You're really on fire today, Larry!") But we do know these facts: It happened at the Shady Canyon Golf Course in Irvine on Saturday, when the guy hit a ball into the rough. On his second swing, he hit a rock, causing a spark that lit the dry grass. Eventually, 150 firefighters were called to the scene.
From the Los Angeles Times:
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The fire spread across two hillsides in dry-as-tinderbox conditions.
"Usually, we're able to close out the fire season in the winters here," Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Greg McKeown said, "but we haven't been able to do that since 2006. That's just how dry it is out there."
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Do you know how hard it is to start a fire without matches? And this guy does it with two swings of a golf club, and then can't put it out? I say alcohol was involved.
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If your latest round of golf results in this, please take up bowling.
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I suck at golf too... but that was awesome!
