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New York Court Dismisses Personal Injury Case Involving Golf Buddies

The New York Court of Appeals has dismissed a personal injury case involving a golf accident that took place in the fall of 2002. According to the court ruling, golf is a recreational sport that comes with assumed risks, and the injured golfer was a victim of his choice to play a somewhat dangerous sport, not a personal injury victim.

The golf injury and accident took place in October 2002, when doctor Anoop Kapoor and doctor Azad Anand were playing nine holes of golf on a course on Long Island, New York. Allegedly, Kapoor hit a bad shot and struck his friend and colleague Anand in the head with a golf ball. Anand was blinded in one eye by the accident.

Anand’s NY personal injury lawyer argued in court that Kapoor was negligent by not yelling “Fore!” to warn his golfing partner of the incoming ball. The judge disagreed, saying that the eye injury was simply part of the assumed risk of playing a sport that involves high-speed hard balls and metal clubs.

Personal injury lawsuits involving the game of golf are nothing new, according to an article that appeared in the New York Times regarding this most recent injury lawsuit. For decades, the sport has been a common backdrop for golf cart accident and injury cases as well as slip and fall cases and premises liability cases. In response, many golf courses and golf clubs have made moves to make their properties safer – for example, by choosing better designs for their courses that cut down on golfer’s hitting balls toward others.

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