1st
A 71-year-old woman from Illinois drowned after driving her golf cart into a water hazard at the Landings Yacht, Golf & Tennis Club in Lee County, Fla.
2nd
A 44-year-old woman was struck in the forearm by a .40-caliber bullet during her round at the Maple Leaf Golf Course, adjacent to a gun club in Linwood, Mich.
3rd
A 43-year-old auto mechanic was arrested at a golf and retirement community in Green Valley, Ariz., after admitting that he'd fired six shots into the air with an assault rifle as he drove his golf cart past the home of his former girlfriend.
4th
Actor Matt Damon and playing partner John Lodge of the Moody Blues dived into bushes when five or six gunshots rang out while they played the 16th hole of a Las Vegas golf course.
5th
The body of a man in his early 20s was found floating facedown in a pond near the 7th tee box of the posh Glendale Golf & Country Club in Winnipeg. Golf pro Glenn Vanderweyde told The Edmonton Sun that the man was not a member.
6th
Trailing by one stroke on the 71st hole of the FleetBoston Classic, Tom Kite killed a bird with his tee shot. The ball fell into a water hazard; Kite took a double bogey and lost by four strokes.
7th
An angry guest at the tony Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., beat to death, with his driver, one of the course's three black swans.
8th
Pepper spray from a nearby police firing range incapacitated 20 golfers on the Springhill Golf Course in Aurora, Colo., where patrons collapsed, vomited and tore at their searing skin and eyes.
9th
Yankees bench coach Don Zimmer had a hole in one during a spring training round with Mel Stottlemyre, Goose Gossage and Ron Guidry but then continued to play with the lucky ball, which he quickly lost in a pond on his way to a score of 135.
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