{"id":659822,"date":"2026-05-10T08:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/659822\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T08:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:15:14","slug":"hughes-shot-hits-cameraman-in-head-bounces-onto-green-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/659822\/","title":{"rendered":"Hughes&#8217; shot hits cameraman in head, bounces onto green at \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Mackenzie Hughes has endured a rough week at <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/truist-championship-gotterup-7a859322ddc62b51fbe37c7645ca23b7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Truist Championship<\/a>, but he caught a break Saturday when his errant tee shot on the par-3 13th hole at Quail Hollow <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PGATOUR\/status\/2053153397683966367?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">hit a cameraman<\/a> in the head and then bounced onto the green.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes hit his iron to the left of the green and the cameraman appeared to duck as the ball hit the backside of his head.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On the green but at what cost\u2026 \ud83e\udd15<\/p>\n<p>Mackenzie Hughes gets an assist off the cameraman\u2019s head on the 13th <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TruistChamp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@TruistChamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa PGA TOUR LIVE on ESPN+ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a9WAs1IgVO\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/a9WAs1IgVO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOUR\/status\/2053153397683966367?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Instead of a lengthy chip shot from the rough, Hughes got home in 3 after two putts to save par.<\/p>\n<p>The cameraman appeared to be OK afterward and Hughes check on him before giving him a golf glove.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes hasn&#8217;t had many good breaks this week.<\/p>\n<p>He shot 73 on Saturday and is tied for last place at 6-over 219 after three rounds.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP golf: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Mackenzie Hughes has endured a rough week at the Truist Championship, but he caught&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-659822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}