Lightning strikes golf ball moving 88 mph midair at Texas Topgolf
SAN ANTONIO – Lightning struck a golf ball moving 88 mph midair at a Texas Topgolf.
Tomas Gomez was at the golf range with some friends in May when a storm rolled in, KSAT reported.
“I decided to hit one last shot then leave,” Gomez, 18, told KSAT.
His friend Arlette Ibarra started recorded a video of the shot. Gomez sent the ball airborne at 88 mph, and moments later a massive bolt of lightning struck it.
“I heard the thunder and my instinct was to run. … It was all a blur,” Gomez said. “It could have hit me, … it could have hit any of us. It was actually pretty scary after I was thinking about it for a while.”
No one was injured, Topgolf said in a post with the video Thursday. The facility was evacuated shortly after the strike.
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Topgolf did not comment to KSAT.
The lightning strike at that speed did draw some comparisons to the movie “Back to the Future,” where a plot point includes a bolt of lightning hitting the Delorean time machine at 88 mph.
“Points? Where we’re going we don’t need points,” Topgolf wrote in a comment on the video.
