With winter approaching, thoughts of warm weather keep us going, so perhaps it would be helpful to review recent golf cases and rulings. Case No. 1-Golfer hit by lightning can't sue golf course when thunderstorm lightning was unforeseeable. In the Sall v. T's, Inc. case, decided August 19,2005, by the Kansas Court of Appeals, a golf course was viewed as not having a duty to warn its patrons about dangerous weather conditions or to protect them from lightning injury. The plaintiff's son and his friend saw lightning and ignored it. The second lightning strike occurred as the horn blew when the son and his friend were on the second green. Instead of immediately returning to the clubhouse, the young golfers continued to finish the hole. They made a conscious decision, the court held, to finish the hole they were playing rather than immediately heed the golf-course warning horn.
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