It’s not often we’re left speechless by a golf story. First of all, it’s our job as writers and journalists to find something to say. Second, after many years in this business, if we haven’t seen it all, we’ve at least seen most of it. Nothing could possibly surprise us, right?
On Sunday, a few hours after Scottie Scheffler stormed to the top of the Olympic podium in France, an altogether different scene unfolded at Haggins Oak Golf Course in Sacramento, CA, where a small plane made an emergency landing, narrowly missing golfers before slamming into the pro shop. Miraculously, the whole crash was caught on local surveillance cameras. Even more miraculously, no one was seriously injured. Buckle up and check it out.
Terrifying and surreal footage. According to the Sacramento Fire Department, the single-engine Piper 28A took off from McClellan Airfield a little before 1 p.m. At around 400 feet altitude, the plane’s engine failed. Needing an open space to attempt an emergency landing, the pilot spotted the golf course and piloted the plane to a harrowing grass landing, skidding across the practice green, where golfers were warming up for their rounds. Thankfully the only injury reported was a small cut to the pilot’s hand.
“Our group heard the loud crash, but we had no idea it was a plane,” golfer Tim Cowan told local NBC affiliate KCRA 3. “We thought maybe some young kid was driving too fast and hit another vehicle in the parking lot.”
Another Haggins Oak regular, Fred Robertson, said that he putts on the practice green before his rounds all the time, but on Sunday something told him to “hold off.”
An investigation into the crash by the FAA and National Transportation Safety Board is ongoing, but for now this looks to have been a best-case scenario. Even Sacramento Fire Department Captain Justin Sylvia agreed.
“[You] need to go buy a lottery ticket today,” Sylvia told the pilot, “Because that is one amazing landing.”
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