Lightning in golf course<\/p>\n
From Kompas<\/p>\n
In response to news about lightning striking the Soewarno golf
\ncourse near Soekarno-Hatta airport, I would like to inform
\nreaders that it was not true that the golf course management had
\nwarned visiting golfers not to play golf.<\/p>\n
While the rain began subsiding at 12:40 p.m local time, the
\ngolf starter called through a speaker phone the Korean group to
\ngo to hole 10. My group had been ready at hole 1, near the
\nstarter, so we were not called through the speaker phone.<\/p>\n
When the lightning struck, my group was at the hole-one
\nputting green, and the group in front of us were walking to the
\nfairway of hole 2. We did not know whether the group on hole
\nthree, which included the late Robinson, the victim of the
\nlightning, had been warned not to play. But there was no such
\nwarning from the starter to my group and the group in front of
\nus. There were three groups behind us waiting for their turn to
\ntee off.<\/p>\n
Closing the course in such dangerous circumstances is the
\nobligation of the management. Golfers can be warned of the
\nclosing of the course, for instance, by a siren.<\/p>\n
As a golfer, I know the risk of being struck by lightning. The
\ngolf course management should show its sympathetic attitude by
\naccepting the natural disaster as a common risk beyond a human's
\nability to predict and control.<\/p>\n
GUY SETIADI<\/p>\n
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