Trapped ... friends try to rescue the striken golfer. Source: AAP
Mark Mihal was lucky to survive his round of golf after a giant sinkhole opened up beneath him and swallowed him up in the United States.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the mortgage broker is recovering after ending up in the sinkhole on the fairway at the 14th hole of a course in Illinois.
The pit that swallowed him was 5.5 metres deep and three metres wide.
"I felt the ground start to collapse and it happened so fast that I couldn’t do anything,” Mihal said.
"I reached for the ground as I was going down and it gave way, too. It seemed like I was falling for a long time. The real scary part was I didn't know when I would hit bottom and what I would land on."
Friends managed to hoist Mihal to safety with a rope after about 20 minutes. But the experience gave him quite a fright.
"I feel lucky just to come out of it with a shoulder injury, falling that far and not knowing what I was going to hit," he said.
"It was absolutely crazy."
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