Spectator loses vision at Ryder Cup after being hit by golf ball | Threatens to sue
Corine Remande was hit in the right eye when a tee shot from USA’s Brooks Koepka swerved off course.
A spectator hit by a golf ball at the Ryder Cup says she has lost sight in one of her eyes and is preparing to sue the organizers.
Corine Remande, 49, was struck in the eye by a tee shot from USA’s Brooks Koepka on Friday.
Spectator loses vision at Ryder Cup after being hit by golf ball
Onlookers at the scene described that blood was gushing from her right eye and she has now held that scans revealed her eyeball exploded and her socket was fractured, causing her to lose vision in her right eye.
She said on Monday that she thinking about suing the tournament organizers as there was no cautioning signal from officials before the ball hurtled into spectators on the 6th hole.
Ms Remande had travelled from Egypt to France with her spouse Raphael to watch the biennial faceoff between the United State and Europe, held at Le Golf National club in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines on the outskirts of Paris.
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US Open champion Koepka, 28, quickly apologized to Ms Remande, saying “she was bleeding pretty heavily”, and later signed her glove as an act of regret.
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He said he felt “awful” and wasted a number of shots subsequently, as he was “shaken”.
“Quite clearly, there is an obligation on the part of the organizers,” Ms Remande said as she departed from the Croix-Rousse hospital in Lyon where she had been moved to from a Paris hospital.
“Officials did not yell any warning as the player’s ball was clearly heading into the crowd.”
She said she “respected the gesture” from Koepka who had checked to see how seriously wounded she was.
“I tried to stay optimistic with him so that he didn’t lose his grip on the game,” she said.
“But once I was escorted away, I didn’t hear anything from the organizers.”
Ms Remande is set to consult an attorney on Tuesday with a view to seeking compensation.
She received initial aid on the spot before being transported to a professional eye hospital in Paris.
She was then transported to her parents’ home in Lyon after medics advised her not to travel immediately back to Egypt.
Scans on her eye exposed an “explosion of the eyeball and a fracture of the right socket”, which, she said, surgeons succeeded to sew back together.
She elucidated: “However they told me I’d lost the vision in my right eye, and this was what was conveyed to me”
Her husband said: “In the best case situation, she may be able to see shapes after the bruising heals in a month or so.”
The EPGA – the body which administers European golf – said it will “investigate” the episode, which could “take a while”.
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