Yikes: Fairway Sinkhole Swallows Golfer

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Marlon Walker reports on Mark Mihal's scary experience at Annbriar Golf Course's 14th hole.

The incident in which Mihal was below ground for about 20 minutes with a dislocated shoulder came just a week after the tragedy in Brandon, Florida.

“I was standing in the middle of the fairway,” Mihal said Monday. “Then, all of a sudden, before I knew it, I was underground.”

Mihal said he fell into the mud floor of an enclosure shaped like a bell, up to 18 feet deep and 10 feet wide. The rescue was precarious, he said, because no one knew whether the surface hole would grow or the enclosure would collapse.