Getting hit by golf ball saves fan's life

How Sean O'Hair's errant drive helped save a life

Ryan Ballengee

Jun 30, 2011, 9:16 AM EDT

On occasion, hitting a fan with an errant golf ball is part of life for a touring professional. It's just bound to happen. But it's not too often that striking a spectator with a golf ball ultimately saves their life. That happened to Aronimink member Sean O'Hair last year at this event, as reported by Joe Juliano at the Philadelphia Inquirer.

[Chris Logan, 25,] had his day cut short when a tee shot from Sean O'Hair, one of his favorite players, struck him in the left temple at the 18th hole.

As emergency medical technicians hustled him to a nearby tent to be examined, Logan had no idea this would be the luckiest day of his life.

While checking him out for a concussion, a doctor inquired about a lump just below his throat and urged him to visit his family doctor to get it checked out. The lump turned out to be a malignant tumor on his thyroid. He underwent two surgeries less than six weeks after being struck by the ball.

The two met at the clinic performed by O'Hair and Hunter Mahan on Tuesday.

It is amazing how things work out sometimes. Events like this one make it hard not to believe in fate, even for the most cynical.