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Irish golfer's shot launches club into middle of pond

By Ben Hooper
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June 2 (UPI) -- An Irish golfer's embarrassing mishap ended with his club flying into the middle of a pond and the entire epic fail was caught on video.

Trevor Sheahan posted a video to YouTube showing what happened when his ball landed in the shallow water on the edge of a pond in the Esker Hills golf course and he decided to try a "Jean Van De Velde impression" by wading into the water to hit the ball with his sand wedge.

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"My friend asked if he could film it as he reckoned I would get destroyed with water and mud etc," he wrote in the video's description.

"The outcome was rather more dramatic. Plan was to play it like a bunker shot, and hit about an inch behind the ball -- that didn't work out so well, club bounced off the water and hooked over my left shoulder into the middle of the lake. We laughed so hard we had to let the group behind us play through. And of course without my sand wedge I hit every bunker possible on the way back."

Sheahan said no ducks were harmed by his club's ill-fated flight.

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