{"id":555632,"date":"2026-03-21T20:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T20:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/555632\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T20:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T20:59:08","slug":"golf-cart-strikes-girl-at-15th-hole-of-valspar-championship-no-injuries-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/555632\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf cart strikes girl at 15th hole of Valspar Championship, no injuries reported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A serious safety concern halted play at Copperhead\u2019s 15th hole on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>On-course reporter and PGA Tour winner Smylie Kaufman was following the pairing of Brooks Koepka and Danny Walker when a girl was struck by a golf cart and pinned underneath it. Kaufman said the girl was checked out by medical staff at the Valspar and no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrooks Koepka went underneath the ropes to talk to the girl and comfort her,\u201d Kaufman said during the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/pga-tour\/news\/valspar-championship-2026-how-to-watch-third-round-tee-times-pairings-tv-info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">third round coverage on NBC<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s going to be OK after medical evaluation,\u201d Kaufman reported when the coverage returned to No. 15. \u201cVery scary moment &#8230; I am sure Brooks Koepka\u2019s head is still spinning a little bit.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was reportedly carrying fans to the hole when the incident happened.<\/p>\n<p>Koepka par putted the hole, and sits inside the top 10 with a few more holes left to go in the third round. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A serious safety concern halted play at Copperhead\u2019s 15th hole on Saturday. On-course reporter and PGA Tour winner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-555632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}