{"id":2619,"date":"2018-08-20T23:39:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T23:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebureaugh.com\/addons\/thegolferonline.com\/golfer\/?p=2528"},"modified":"2018-08-20T23:39:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T23:39:54","slug":"fan-injured-after-tour-players-club-slam-sends-iron-head-into-gallery-causing-stitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/blog\/2018\/08\/20\/fan-injured-after-tour-players-club-slam-sends-iron-head-into-gallery-causing-stitches\/","title":{"rendered":"Fan injured after tour player&#8217;s club slam sends iron head into gallery, causing stitches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">Former PGA Tour player Kevin Stadler accidentally injured a fan at the WinCo Foods Portland Open on Friday by breaking his club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\"><a class=\"yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/pga\/players\/257\/\">Shaun Micheel<\/a> wrote about the incident at the Web.com Tour event Facebook Friday night. Micheel refused to name Stadler, referring to him simply as his playing partner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">&#8220;One of my playing partners played a poor shot with a 7-iron on the par-3 15th hole this morning,&#8221; Micheel wrote. &#8220;In a fit of anger he slammed his club against the ground and the side of his foot which caused the club to break about 6\u201d from the bottom. I had my head down but the clubhead flew behind me and hit a spectator to my right. It\u2019s been a while since I\u2019ve seen so much blood. We stayed with him for about 15 minutes before the EMT\u2019s arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">&#8220;The last I heard was that he had a possible skull fracture but that he was doing ok otherwise. The player was absolutely shattered and we did our best to keep his spirits up. This was not done on purpose and we were astounded at the way the club was directed but it shows you just how dangerous it is to throw or break clubs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">ESPN&#8217;s Bob Harig <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/story\/_\/id\/24410189\/spectator-hit-head-broken-club-webcom-event-requires-stitches\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">followed up on the story<\/a>, which revealed that Stadler was the player in question. According to Harig, a rules official at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club, host of the Portland Open, said the spectator was taken to a local hospital and received six stitches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">Stadler, son of former Masters winner <a class=\"yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/golf\/champions\/players\/Craig+Stadler\/46\">Craig Stadler<\/a>, has made over 260 starts on the PGA Tour, highlighted by winning the 2014 Waste Management Phoenix Open. Stadler has not made an official appearance, however, since 2015, as the 38-year-old has battled a broken hand. The Portland tournament\u2014he ultimately missed the cut\u2014was just his third outing of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Yahoo Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former PGA Tour player Kevin Stadler accidentally injured a fan at the WinCo Foods Portland Open on Friday by breaking his club. Shaun Micheel wrote about the incident at the Web.com Tour event Facebook Friday night. Micheel refused to name Stadler, referring to him simply as his playing partner. &#8220;One of my playing partners played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-19th-hole","8":"category-golfy-goofs"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}