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Our picture, taken from our archives, serves well to illustrate a recent drama on the slope leading down from the First Tee towards the green. Our President Emeritus David Petty had started a four-ball-better- ball at the Tenth in still frosty conditions. By the time he and his four-ball set off from the First Tee a considerable amount of ice had formed around his spikes and, going down the hill, he slipped, fell and broke his right fibula, the smaller of the bones in the lower leg.
An air ambulance arrived and the medical team, to David's great disappointment, restricted their activities to making sure he was in no danger of dying. Off they flew again and poor David had to wait for a road ambulance to arrive in slower time and take him to Ward D4 at the Queen Alexandra Hospital at Cosham near Portsmouth.
Our editorial staff found him in good spirits on Friday. His broken bone had been plated and screwed by a nice lady surgeon and, thanks to an epidural anaesthetic, David had been able to watch the operation on a television screen. The patient hopes to return home for convalescence on Tuesday 9 February. His main disappointment in the whole episode is that he and his partner were looking to win the First since both had put their tee shots on the green and their opponents had not!
David, Get Well Soon.
Sunday, 07 February, 2010
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