{"id":96064,"date":"2025-08-20T05:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/96064\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T05:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:36:08","slug":"east-aurora-woman-sues-after-golf-cart-accident-at-pga-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/96064\/","title":{"rendered":"East Aurora woman sues after golf cart accident at PGA Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 An East Aurora woman has filed a lawsuit seeking unspecified damages after being struck by a golf cart during the 2023<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pgatour.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0PGA<\/a> Championship held at the Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester.<\/p>\n<p>Lauren M. Lilley was attending the event as a fan on May 20, 2023 and was standing along a rope line to watch golfers when, according to her lawsuit filed in Erie County, she was struck from behind by a golf cart operated by a member of the broadcast crew for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/article\/sports\/nfl\/bills\/josh-allen-gifts-buffalo-bills-fan-ryder-cup-tickets\/71-a358aaf1-9f5f-4cc1-bedb-6a56de7d81f3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Bills fan and influencer gifted Ryder Cup tickets by Josh Allen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to her attorneys, Lilley was pitched over rope and onto the course, suffering a host of injuries, including a concussion with loss of consciousness, a herniated disc, and injuries to her neck, shoulder and arm.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the lawsuit claims she had to have surgery and continues to suffer from pain and permanent injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Named as defendants in the lawsuit are CBS Sports, CBS Broadcasting Inc., Robovision Inc., the PGA of America, PGA Tour Inc., and Oak Hill Country Club. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 An East Aurora woman has filed a lawsuit seeking unspecified damages after being struck by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-96064","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\/96064","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=96064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}