INJURY TO EYE FROM EXPLOSION OF GOLF BALL

Eye injury from exploding golf balls.

Golf balls with liquid centres are liable to explode if damaged, and thus present a potential hazard to the eye. This injury was described by Duke-Elder (I954) who concluded ". . . Fortunately this hazard has now been removed from golf". In the past 5 years, however, several cases have been reported in the American literature (Johnson and Zimmerman, I 965; Penner, I 966; Slusher, Jaegers, and A...

Curious Result of Explosion Injury to Eye.

Ocular injuries from liquid golf ball cores.

Tissue removed from nine new cases from 18 hours to 20 weeks after injury by a golf ball contained crystalline and other foreign material to which there was a mild inflammatory reaction followed by macrophagic activity and fibrosis. Optical and electron probe analysis showed that the crystalline material was crushed barytes containing small quantities of muscovite as is typical in natural depos...

Squash ball to eye ball: the likelihood of squash players incurring an eye injury.

The records of the 118 patients treated as Southampton Eye Hospital during 1978-9 for injuries incurred while playing squash, badminton, tennis, table tennis, cricket, and football show that for squash the main cause of eye injury was the player being hit by the ball. Severe eye injuries--those requiring treatment as an inpatient--were rare but much more frequent than such injuries in other spo...

The flight of a golf ball

A skilled golfer hitting a drive can accelerate his club head from zero to 120 miles per hour in the quarter of a second before making contact with the ball. As a result, the ball leaves the tee with a typical speed of 175 miles per hour and at an angle of 11◦ to the ground. From that moment the golfer no longer exercises control. The trajectory of the ball is determined by the laws of physics....