Aussie Man Jailed For Stabbing Friend On Golf Course

Us golfers know that tempers can flare during a round. Could be slow play, hitting into a group, overly loud music–you name it. The latest incident involves using a knife on the course when one drunk friend took the blade to another after that friend scolded the drunkard over his “antics.”

The Herald reports about the attack on an Australian course.

Matthew McKay, 31, and two close friends had been drinking and watching a boxing match on TV before they headed to Broadford Golf Course, north of Melbourne, in August 2017.

The trio played a few holes but McKay appeared intoxicated and was damaging the greens, scratching one with a flag and stomping golf balls into another.

His friends Simon Mudd and Shaun Peterson chastised him for his antics, telling him to stop.

McKay stormed off to his car, returned with a fold-out Smith and Wesson knife and attacked his mates.

He first swung the weapon at Mr Peterson before he turned to Mr Mudd and drove the blade into his left thigh, hitting a large artery and blood gushed from the deep wound.

Mr Mudd was airlifted to hospital where he received a major blood transfusion and emergency surgery.

“He had lost almost three litres of blood and was minutes away from death,” County Court Judge Frank Gucciardo said on Monday.

McKay was sentenced to one year and eight months in jail after pleading guilty to recklessly causing serious injury and assault with a weapon. He had been close friends with Mr Mudd since he was about five years old.

McKay had alcohol and drug abuse issues for years in the lead up to the crime but he has been sober since, the judge noted.

He is remorseful for the attack but it’s not the first time he has stabbed someone he knew after drinking. 

McKay was fined nearly $5000 for slashing a friend and stabbing a woman, also in the thigh, in Western Australia in 2009.

Not a G’Day Mate.