JOHANNESBURG — A Bryanston golfer struck by lightning on Saturday has described the experience as “not ideal” but a clear improvement on the afternoon his wife had planned for him at Sandton City.
Deon Pretorius, 54, was on the seventh hole when the siren sounded and the rest of his fourball ran for the halfway house. He stayed to finish the hole. “I was lying three,” he said. “You don’t walk off lying three.”
“There was a bang, everything went white, and then I was in the rough. Which, to be fair, is where I usually am.”
His wife, Lorraine, arrived at Milpark Hospital forty minutes later carrying fabric swatches.
She said she had warned him about playing in thunderstorms “roughly every weekend since 1998”. “He told me he’d rather be struck by lightning than look at curtains. I didn’t think he’d go and arrange it.”
When Pretorius came round, he asked whether anyone had found his eight iron. Lorraine confirmed she had it. “It’s in my car. It’s staying in my car.”
Doctors treated him for minor burns and temporary hearing loss, which Lorraine described as “no change”.
Pretorius was discharged on Tuesday and immediately phoned the club about the weekend forecast: a 70% chance of thunderstorms.
Author
The Hadeda Heckler is a South African satirical news website. Some stories are invented, others are exaggerated and a few are disturbingly close to the truth. Any resemblance to actual government competence or the stupidity of the average man or woman is purely coincidental.
Discover more from The Hadeda Heckler
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.