Strike tips - When You Hear Thunder, Lightning is Near !

When You Hear Thunder,
Lightning is Near !


Immediately head indoors!

Seek

  • Large, permanent building
  • Fully-enclosed metal vehicle (cars, vansor pickup trucks)
  • Lowest elevation area

Avoid

  • Tall objects (trees/poles)
  • Small rain and sun shelters
  • Large, open areas
  • Wet areas
  • Elevated areas
  • All metal objects including, golf clubs, golf carts, fences, electrical and maintenance machinery and power lines.
If sudden, close-in lightning does not permit immediate evacuation to a safer place, spread out from your group, squat down, tuck your head and cover your ears. Head for the safest place as soon as immediate threat passes.

Discontinuing Play in Competitions
The USGA emphasizes that players in a competition have the right to stop play if they think lightning threatens them, even though the committee may not have authorized it specifically by signal, (Rules 6-8 and 33-2d).

LIGHTNING SAFETY TIPS COURTESY OF:
National Lightning Safety Institute • www.lightningsafety.com
American Meteorological Society • www.ametsoc.org

PUBLISHED BY:
United States Golf Association • www.usga.org