{"id":33639,"date":"2025-04-19T18:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T18:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/33639\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T18:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T18:51:14","slug":"pga-tour-golfer-billy-horschel-signs-womans-leg-after-smashing-her-with-a-shot-at-rbc-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/33639\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Tour golfer Billy Horschel signs woman&#8217;s leg after smashing her with a shot at RBC Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-1525\/index.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LEOCCIANO CALLAO<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  17:51 EDT, 17 April 2025   |  Updated:  17:53 EDT, 17 April 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Billy Horschel made up for smashing a spectator&#8217;s shin with a golf ball at the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head, South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">After The <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/masters_tournament\/index.html\" id=\"mol-15588740-1bd6-11f0-9383-f9888e8c9449\" rel=\"noopener\">Masters tournament<\/a> wrapped up over the weekend, the PGA Tour&#8217;s best golfers were back in action for the season&#8217;s fifth Signature Event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">On Thursday, Horschel hit an errant tee shot that blasted a woman&#8217;s shin by the course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">After ripping the driver to the right of the tenth fairway, Billy Ho retrieved the ball and was informed ricocheted hard off the woman&#8217;s shin and bounced back toward the fairway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">While the golfer did not see the ball hit the fan, the damage was glaringly visible as the woman had a giant welt on her shin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">To make up for the accident, Horschel encircled the welt and signed around it.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-ebc3858937ab9430\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/97407339-14623743-image-m-67_1744926436958.jpg\" height=\"630\" width=\"634\" alt=\"PGA Tour star Billy Horschel signed a fan's shin after hitting her on a tee shot at RBC Heritage\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">PGA Tour star Billy Horschel signed a fan&#8217;s shin after hitting her on a tee shot at RBC Heritage\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A video posted by the Golf Channel showed the interaction as they shared a hug after he wrote on her shin. The commentary team then noted how the fan &#8216;made the best&#8217; of the mishap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Surrounding fans applauded the woman for being a good sport and Horschel for approaching her after the hit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Justin Thomas currently sits atop the leaderboard for the $20million purse. The tournament runs from the 17th-20th of April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Scottie Scheffler and Russell Henley are tied for second while Wyndham Clark sits fourth ahead of a five-way tie for fifth place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">After the mishap was turned into a memorable interaction, Horschel finished the first day of the competition in a ten-way tie for 52nd.<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        PGA Tour golfer Billy Horschel signs woman&#8217;s leg after smashing her with a shot at RBC Heritage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By LEOCCIANO CALLAO Published: 17:51 EDT, 17 April 2025 | Updated: 17:53 EDT, 17 April 2025 Billy Horschel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[92,2826,15483,93,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-33639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-south-carolina","11":"tag-sport","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114366138479910777","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}