Golf world crashing Indiana golfer body slammed and sent to hospital after insulting fellow golfer’s wife
A54-year-old golfer was knocked unconscious, allegedly stopped breathing for 10 seconds and was ultimately sent to the hospital after an altercation at The Links at Heartland Crossing in Morgan County, Indiana last Friday.
It all started when the middle-aged man confronted the group in front of him for “cutting,” despite him and his group stopping to order food at the clubhouse. Another in his group said “It wasn’t that big a deal” that the other group played through, but the man couldn’t let the “proper golf etiquette” slight go.
Witnesses said a 54-year-old man became irate after another group of golfers “cut in front” of his party. He ended up being badly beaten after refusing to apologize to a man’s wife after calling her a derogatory word.
A Brownsburg man is under arrest.
The dispute turned violent when he insulted the wife of one of the men playing through, calling her group “a**holes” and telling her that she was a “c***.” Her husband, Jerry Whitaker, demanded an apology after she went “crying back to her group.” The two men then “got in each other’s faces”, according to witnesses, and after the 54-year-old declined to apologize, Whitaker proceeded to slam the agitator to the ground.