FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- A man said Tuesday he nearly bled to death after he was stabbed with the shaft of a golf club during a brawl on a golf course.
Clay Carpenter, 48, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram he is recovering from a punctured femoral artery and massive blood loss after surgery on his leg. The incident occurred at the Eagle Mountain Lake course, where Carpenter and his two golfing colleagues asked a foursome ahead of them if they could play through, or proceed ahead of the slower-playing group.
A course marshal permitted the move. A brawl ensued, and while Carpenter was atop another golfer, he was stabbed with the golf club shaft, he told the newspaper.
The Tarrant County Sheriff's Department is investigating the incident and released a 911 call in which the caller of the foursome ahead of Carpenter's said: "He fell on a golf club or something. We've got his artery clamped with our hand. We don't know this guy."
Another man took the phone and said: "He's about to die. It was spurting. We saw blood coming out of his groin area. I was like a leaky faucet."
Sheriff's Department spokesman Terry Grisham said Carpenter was "very close to death."
