Fore! Condoleezza Rice takes down spectator

[proud2BlibKansan]

Yeah, this would ruin our golf game, too.

At the Pebble Beach Pro-Am tournament on Thursday, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice hit a bad shot on the sixth hole. The ball smacked a female spectator in the face. Here's how the New York Times reported the incident:

"On the par-5 sixth hole, which features a blind approach to the uphill green, Rice’s second shot landed on the side of the hill. After she advanced it several yards with her third, her fourth shot flew out of the grabby grass and hit a spectator standing behind the left gallery rope.

“'Did I hit you?” Rice said, moving quickly to reach the woman, who had a bloody gash above the bridge of her nose. Her daughter was trying to use a pairings sheet as a bandage. “It was a bad shot. I’m really sorry.”

"Rice knelt, handed the woman’s daughter a white towel to stanch the bleeding and held the woman’s right hand until first-aid personnel arrived. Before she headed to the green, she asked the daughter to call her with an update on her mother’s condition. Rice’s assistant, who was walking outside the ropes, slipped the daughter a piece of paper after Rice left. Rice’s game was never the same ..."

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/02/08/4055772/fore-condoleezza-rice-takes-down.html#storylink=omni_popular#storylink=cpy

[Cali_Democrat]

1. She should stick to help starting multi-trillion dollar wars based on lies

Clearly she doesn't have this golfing thing down. She should stick to what she knows.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. In the face? She must've taken lessons from Cheney...

...although, to her credit, she substituted "buckshot" with "golfball".

[just1voice]

3. The war criminal/torture camp/WMD liar sure is getting a lot of press

That's the 2nd link on DU I've read today, neither of which mentioned Rice's role in war crimes.

[MADem]

4. Is she chanelling Gerald Ford?

"I know I am getting better at golf because I'm hitting fewer spectators." - Gerald Ford

A Time magazine article in 1997 said that Ford sought golf guidance from the best: "Jack Nicklaus guided his swing, Hale Irwin helped him with irons, and Dave Stockton nursed his putting." While Ford often shot in the 80s, he developed a reputation for waywardship that dovetailed with the Chevy Chase - "Saturday Night Live" parody of Ford as a big, clumsy oaf.

And, in fact, Ford did hit quite a few spectators with errant shots during his many appearances in what is now known as the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic. He was always paired with Hope at the tournament, where Ford's knack for scaring spectators became a running joke. It was a joke Ford often got in on himself, as in the quote at the top of this post. And this one:

"I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose." - Gerald Ford

Journalist Don Van Natta, author of the book First Off the Tee: Presidential Hackers, Duffers and Cheaters (compare prices), ranks Ford the third-best golfer among all U.S. Presidents, behind Kennedy and Dwight Eisenhower. "Although his game was hazardous to galleries," Van Natta wrote in a Golf Digest article, "Ford was a good athlete and he scored in the upper 80s."