Steve Banky, Real American

Sir, I salute you

Woods was leading by four strokes Sunday as he stood over his ball far to the left of the fairway after a wild 358-yard drive. He pulled his 9-iron second shot into the trees left of the green and it hit a limb and dropped directly onto Rudy Wittensoldner. The 58-year-old native of nearby Louisville was sitting with friends while covered with a clear sheet of plastic. The ball hit her in the forearm and she pulled her arm up against her body so the ball wouldn’t fall, gamely waiting until Woods came up to collect it.
Woods walked around the greenside bunker and laughed when he saw her scrunched down in her chair with the ball nestled against her body. Woods then asked for a ruling and received a free drop, chipping through the green. While marshals went to get ice for Wittensoldner’s arm, Woods calmly holed an 18-foot chip for par that was met by a huge ovation.
“It’s kind of hot,” Wittensoldner said of the spot where the ball hit her.
Woods was asked for a blow-by-blow of the hole.
“It ended up right on the lady’s jacket, poncho, whatever you want to call it,” he said. “I took a drop, hit a terrible pitch over the green, and I holed it from there with a little 9 iron. Four shots.”
Seconds later, after Sabbatini made a double bogey and was walking away from the ninth green, retired firefighter and paramedic Steve Banky casually said to him, “Hey, Rory. Still think Tiger’s beatable?”
Sabbatini wheeled and pointed to Banky, telling a police officer that he wanted Banky removed from the course. He was escorted to the course’s front entrance by two officers.

Hehe, go whine some more, Rory, after your latest choke.

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