BEING hit on the head by a stray golf ball can cause epilepsy.
Paul Eldridge and his colleagues from the Walton Centre for
Neurology and Neurosurgery in Liverpool describe four cases of
young people struck by golf balls, who had epileptic fits up to
five years later ( Golf balls travel at up to 210 kilometres per
hour, and can transmit enough energy across the skull to damage
the brain severely. "Even if you are not knocked out, the injury
can be sufficiently severe to cause epilepsy," says Eldridge. To
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