{"id":15435,"date":"2021-07-14T06:13:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T10:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=15435"},"modified":"2021-07-14T07:41:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T11:41:11","slug":"watch-lighting-strikes-a-flying-golf-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/mornings\/2021\/07\/watch-lighting-strikes-a-flying-golf-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"[WATCH] Lighting Strikes \u26a1 A Flying Golf Ball ?\ufe0f"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">18 year old Tomas Gomez wanted &#8220;to hit one last shot, then leave&#8221; when weather began to take a turn at Topgolf in San Antonio, Texas.<br \/>\nTopgolf is a place in the States that is so awesome, we need one of these here in Windsor or Essex County.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a giant complex with dozens of climate-controlled hitting bays that look out into a massive golf green. There\u2019s bars and TVs everywhere too.<br \/>\nSo your half inside and technically and half outside.<br \/>\nSo Tomas took his swing and as the ball was flying into the air, it got struck by lightning!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4onIrG3Z0bQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Its like the golf version of\u00a0 \u201cBack to the Future\u201d! That bolt of lightning hits the Delorean time machine at 88 mph or 142 km &#8211; which was the exact speed this ball was travelling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u201cPoints? Where we\u2019re going we don\u2019t need points,\u201d Topgolf wrote in a comment on the video.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">It could have been way worse.\u00a0Tomas was holding essentially a lightning rod in a golf club in his follow-through swing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">For those wondering if the ball survived the hit, there&#8217;s a follow up video of what the ball looks like now and its completely black.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"18 year old Tomas Gomez wanted &#8220;to hit one last shot, then leave&#8221; when weather began to take a turn at Topgolf in San Antonio, Texas. Topgolf is a place in the States that is so awesome, we need one of these here in Windsor or Essex County. It\u2019s a giant complex with dozens of","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":15440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 09:47:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/mornings\/2021\/07\/watch-lighting-strikes-a-flying-golf-ball\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15435"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15443,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15435\/revisions\/15443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}