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Letter to the Editor
Penetrating eye injury caused by a golf tee
  1. ALAN MULVIHILL,
  2. JANE O’SULLIVAN,
  3. PATRICIA LOGAN
  1. Eye Department, Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
  1. Mr Alan Mulvihill, Institute of Ophthalmology, 60 Eccles Street, Dublin 7, Republic of Ireland.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.81.1.90a

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    Editor,—We report a case of penetrating eye injury caused by a golf tee. We feel that this may have been a one off event; however, the paucity of information in the literature regarding ocular golf injuries makes it difficult to comment on its significance.

    CASE REPORT

    A 16-year-old male was playing pitch and putt, and while teeing off he felt something go into his right eye. The eye became painful immediately and the vision blurred. He removed the object from his eye, and it turned out to be his golf tee. The club he was using was a medium lofted (seven) iron and the surface underfoot was a rubber mat. The tee was a standard plastic golf tee (Fig1).

    Figure 1

    Standard plastic …

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