Sunday, June 05, 2011
LAHORE
THE Lahore Gymkhana s golf course, situated beside one of the busiest roads in the City, is without a safety net around it as per international standards to protect passers-by from being hit by flying golf balls.
Despite several incidents of citizens getting wounded by golf balls, one of the hardest ones in all sports, the Gymkhana Club management has not yet put up a safety net around its golf course or taken any measures to protect the Jail Road users.
The elite club management, run by the sitting and retired bureaucrats and capitalists, has allegedly ignored several verbal complaints besides some of the written applications by citizens, asking them to take the required precautionary measures to protect common people from getting wounded.
The commuters, particularly those standing at traffic signals near the Fountain Chowk connecting the Jail Road with Main Boulevard, Gulberg, have been severely injured in some incidents in which amateur golfers hit the ball dozens of yards out of the ground.
A senior executive of a private bank, who sustained a severe head injury when hit a golf ball hit her some weeks back, had moved a written complaint to the management of Gymkhana but no action was taken despite the lapse of one month.
The woman banker was sitting in her car s backseat when a golf ball smashed through the rear screen and hit her head.
She was hospitalised for a week and had not resumed her office since then. She still complains of dizziness and vertigo.
Had the ball hit directly to a child or an adult riding a motorcycle without a helmet, he/she would have surely not survived.
When contacted, Lahore Gymkhana Secretary Col. Fawad said that it was not a routine matter that golfers hit the golf balls out of the club s boundary wall.
He said that it only happened once in a blue moon and the authorities of the Gymkhana Club had already taken notice of the recent incident in which a woman received a severe head injury.
He said a written apology had been forwarded to the woman in which the management of the club apologised to her for the agony which she had to face at the hands of an inexperienced golfer.
Fawad said that only certified golfers were allowed to play in the club.
He said the club authorities had decided to install a safety net besides the boundary wall of the golf course but he could not give a time-frame for that.
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