Atlanta Police said five men and one woman were injured, but none of their injuries were life-threatening.<\/p>\n
PGA Tour spokesperson Mark Russell said when play is suspended, “We encourage everybody to leave and take shelter anywhere they can. We opened up hospitality areas that are grounded, a lot of other places like that. You’ve got a lot of people, and you have to do that quickly, and sometimes people don’t take shelter.”<\/p>\n
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The odds of being struck by lightning \u2013 the six injured weren’t actually hit \u2013 are incredibly long.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The National Weather Service says you have a 1\/15,300 chance of being struck in your lifetime. Lightning accounts for an average of 27 deaths per year, and 243 injuries.<\/p>\n
Looking Ahead<\/b><\/h2>\n
The PGA Tour season is off for a couple weeks before the wraparound schedule tees up the 2019-20 season in September at The Greenbrier. The game’s best players, however, will play a limited schedule over the next few months leading up to the Presidents Cup.<\/p>\n
Las Vegas oddsmakers are looking ahead to the 2020 Masters. World No. 1 Brooks Koepka is the odds-on favorite at 8\/1. McIlroy is second at 10\/1, and Woods and Dustin Johnson next at 16\/1. Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, Jon Rahm, Justin Rose, and Patrick Cantlay round out the favorites at 20\/1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rory McIlroy won the Tour Championship on Sunday at East Lake Golf Club on 8\/1 odds, but the event will be widely remembered for a lightning strike that injured six people. McIlroy entered the staggered final event of the FedEx Cup Playoffs at -5, five shots behind points leader Justin Thomas. But following four stellar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":113159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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