Danielle Kang Falls Asleep Stretching And Inexplicably Wakes Up With Broken Tooth

LPGA golfer Danielle Kang tells a wild tale of discovering a mysterious broken tooth after waking up from falling asleep stretching.

Kang: “I broke my tooth. I fell asleep during stretching. I don’t know what’s going on…I was stretching out on the floor and next thing I know, I slept 30 minutes. I broke a tooth. Call the dentist on range. It’s all good.”

The reigning Women’s PGA Championship champion, Kang said she fell asleep while exercising ahead of her opening round, and woke up feeling pain in her mouth.

Despite the distraction, the 25-year-old Kang was composed when she got out on the course, shooting a bogey-free 4-under 68 at the LPGA Singapore.

Here’s a list of Tour players suffering bizarre non-golf related injuries over the years

  • Louis Oostehuizen smashes his fingers in an airport luggage rack.
  • Padraig Harrington had to withdraw from an event because, “I was hit on the elbow with a practice swing by an amateur I was coaching at an outing.”
  • Jamie Donaldson nearly slices off his finger with a chainsaw and took three weeks off to mend.
  • Greg Norman nearly lost his entire left hand to a chainsaw.”I had a premonition, to tell you the truth, as I was getting my chainsaw ready that something bad was going to happen.” (attention golfers–no more chainsaw usage!).
  • Thomas’ Levet breaking a shin after jumping in to a lake following his French Open win.
  • Oliver Wilson fracturing his wrist while slipping out of the way in a snowball fight.
  • Graeme McDowell catching his hand in a door while sleep walking.
  • Sam Torrance tackling a Yucca plant in the middle of the night that he thought was an introducer.
  • Lee Trevino hit by lightning by the 13th green during the Western Open leading to the famous quip, “Should’ve held a 1-iron, because not even God can hit a 1-iron.
  • Brad Faxon breaks wrist falling off a ladder to fix flood lights before the final round at the 1999 Colonial Invitational.