{"id":34740,"date":"2026-07-11T04:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/34740\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T04:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:34:09","slug":"teen-assault-claim-at-billings-golf-course-draws-conflicting-witness-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/34740\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen assault claim at Billings golf course draws conflicting witness accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 15-year-old boy says he was assaulted by an employee at L<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvq.com\/news\/teen-alleges-billings-golf-course-worker-rammed-him-with-cart-on-the-4th-of-july\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ake Hills Golf Course in Billings Heights on the 4th of July<\/a>, but witnesses are offering differing accounts of what happened near the third tee.<br \/>Watch Lake Hills Golf Course incident update here:<\/p>\n<p>Teen assault claim at Billings golf course draws conflicting witness accounts<\/p>\n<p>The teen&#8217;s family says a Lake Hills employee purposely rammed the boy with a golf cart. <\/p>\n<p>However, a man who says he was within five feet of both the teen and the golf course worker described a different sequence of events.<\/p>\n<p>That witness told MTN the employee pulled on the boy&#8217;s shirt, initiating contact, but also said the teen fought back, punching the man several times and busting his lip. <\/p>\n<p>The teen&#8217;s grandmother does not deny that the teen struck the employee.<\/p>\n<p>Billings police confirmed officers have spoken with several witnesses. <\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed the 15-year-old suffered an abrasion on his lower leg, but no charges have been filed.<\/p>\n<p>Another witness told MTN the group of about 10 was kicked off the course after driving through bunkers and misbehaving. <\/p>\n<p>The grandmother said that did not happen, telling MTN the group left on its own because of the hot temperatures. <\/p>\n<p>Billings police said they are unaware of anyone being kicked off the course.<\/p>\n<p>Lake Hills Golf Club management declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old boy says he was assaulted by an employee at Lake Hills Golf Course in Billings Heights&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13430,13431,14325,44,13434,13433],"class_list":["post-34740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-billings","tag-billings-police","tag-billings-police-department","tag-golf","tag-lake-hills-golf-course","tag-montana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}