A golfer was seriously injured and left blind in one eye when a ball smashed into his face - after another player took a duff shot. Leigh Powell, 44, was enjoying a day on the green at his local golf club when a shot from another player smacked him in the face. Leigh, a keen golfer of over 20 years, was knocked out for over five minutes - and other players thought he was dead. He sat with ice packs on his eye and an ambulance was called but would have taken five hours to get to him, he said.