Golf ball sized hail swamps Colorado golf club

"They were the size of golf balls!". Yes of course they were. The hail that is. Except, in this case, they actually were. The size of golf balls. The hail...

Donald Ross designed Lakewood Country Club in Colorado was hit with a massive deluge of hail which covered fairways and had golfers scrambling about trying to find their ProV1s and TP5s amongst the white invaders.

Lance Scheele, GM, said: “All of our greens took significant damage. It would have been like having a PGA Tour event and the players not fixing a single ball mark. That’s what it looks like. Ultimately it’s going to take a couple weeks to heal up.”

Scheele Tweeted this, while noting that the course was closed on Tuesday to start repairing the damage:

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