Jay Karen in front of the courthouse in Binghamton, New Yord. Courtesy Jay Karen
Imagine you are on hole No. 7, riding in a golf cart up the fairway toward the green, a place where you’ve been hundreds of times over the years. Seemingly out of nowhere an incoming ball strikes you in the eye. Your first concern is your pain and the extent to which you’ve been injured (trust me, I’ve been hit with an errant shot twice). Your second thought might be wondering where the ball came from (in this case someone on a nearby hole duck-hooked his tee shot way off the intended line). And your third thought might be about who is at fault, because the instinct is strong to place blame.
This is a shorthand description of what happened in the summer of 2020 at Cazenovia Golf Club, a nine-hole club near Syracuse, New York, established in 1896. The unfortunate situation occurred during the club’s member-member tournament, at which Justin Hubbard hit an errant tee shot on hole No. 3, and David Katleski was the unlucky victim of the mis-hit. After the acc…
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