{"id":78559,"date":"2025-08-13T01:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T01:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/78559\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T01:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T01:52:10","slug":"woman-loses-arm-after-tree-falls-on-her-during-round-of-mini-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/78559\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Loses Arm After Tree Falls On Her During Round Of Mini Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"

A nightmare unfolded at a putt-putt course in California for a mother and her family.<\/p>\n

PublishedAugust 12, 2025 12:45 PM EDT\u2022UpdatedAugust 12, 2025 12:45 PM EDT<\/p>\n

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Mini-golf is supposed to be an enjoyable experience – a break from life, if you will – but for a mother in Ventura, Calif. it turned into what has to be the worst day of her life.<\/p>\n

Adela Magana and her family arrived at Golf N’ Stuff mini golf course and amusement park on August 6 to celebrate her son’s 13th birthday. She sat down on a bench to watch her kids play a hole, when all of a sudden, a palm tree came crashing down on top of her.<\/p>\n

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A nightmare unfolded at a Ventura, California mini golf course. (Getty Images Creative)<\/p>\n

Her 22-year-old son, Junior, his father Amando, and two other players on the golf course rushed over to lift the roughly 40-foot tree off of her, but the damage was severe. According to the Ventura County Star<\/a>, Adela lost her right arm after doctors at Ventura County Medical Center amputated it just below the shoulder the day after the freak incident.<\/p>\n

“I was going to go look for the ball, and by that time, I heard a screeching sound \u2014 like a branch breaking,” said Junior told the outlet. “I thought nothing of it, but then I heard a big old thump, and people were running toward my mom.”<\/p>\n

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Junior recalled the scene shortly after the tree had fallen, trying to stop his mom from bleeding out.<\/p>\n

“After that, we went straight into stopping the bleeding,” Junior explained. “We got a belt, used it as a tourniquet, held it and had other people call 911.”<\/p>\n

Adela, who is a mother of four and grandmother of one, will require additional surgeries and have to undergo rehabilitation to be able to use a prosthetic in the future.<\/p>\n

It’s incredibly difficult to imagine the situation the Magana family went through, having at one second been playing putt-putt to celebrate a birthday, to suddenly being thrust into a nightmare that impacted everyone involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A nightmare unfolded at a putt-putt course in California for a mother and her family. PublishedAugust 12, 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-78559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}