CBS Sports: LOOK: This lightning strike on a golf green is crazy and scary

[Omaha Steve]

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http://www.cbssports.com/golf/eye-on-golf/25192738/look-this-lightning-strike-on-a-golf-green-is-crazy-and-scary

By Kyle Porter | Golf Writer
May 22, 2015 9:58 am ET

That photo is apparently Stonebridge Golf Club in Utah after a thunderstrom which produced lightning which produced one of the most terrifying photos I've ever seen.

Here's Fox 13:

“Our superintendent, Matt Isabel–the next morning actually when he was taking care of the golf course–noticed that the lightning had struck the flag stick and then sent out that octopus-like mark on the green, and he photographed it and came in and shared it with us in the golf shop,” said Paul Phillips, who is the marketing director of the Stonebridge Golf Club.

That photograph went viral, receiving thousands of shares on social media, including on Reddit after a post by user Geoffreypjs.

“As of now, over 18,000 people have viewed that picture,” Phillips said. “So, it's really cool, typically we don't have 1 percent of that response for a Facebook post, so it's really been exceptional.”

FULL story at link.

[Binkie The Clown]

1. It's called a "lichtenberg figure"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichtenberg_figure

I read about them in Scientific American Magazine sometime back in the 60's when I was in high school.

[alfredo]

2. A fractal?

[Binkie The Clown]

3. I believe it is.

Anyway, that's what I read somewhere, and if it's on the Internet then it MUST be true, right?

[alfredo]

4. Well, I get all my news at the Onion, the most trusted name in news.

[Fumesucker]

5. Fore!

I hope you don't mind if I play through?

That is so kind of you.