I'm sure there's an opportunity for a vaguely golf related joke here...

From The NY Daily News:

It was an unexpected sinkhole-in-one for a claustrophobic Missouri man who was swallowed up while walking on the fairway of an Illinois golf course on Friday. Mark Mihal, a 43-year-old mortgage broker from Creve Couer, was at the 14th hole at Annbriar Golf Course in Waterloo, about 25 miles southeast of St. Louis, when he disappeared into the earth.

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"I felt the ground start to collapse and it happened so fast that I couldn't do anything," Mihal said on his website golfmanna.com. "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."

Mihal, whose wife Lori describes as claustrophobic, suffered a dislocated shoulder as he fell onto the mud floor of a bell-shaped sinkhole that measured 18-feet deep and 10-feet wide.

D'you see what they did there: "sinkhole-in-one"? Absolute genius.