Hank Martinez , top, Ed Magaletta , right, Russ Nobbe , left, look into a sinkhole that swallowed Mark Mihal while he was playing a round of golf. Picture: golfmanna.com Source: Supplied
MARK Mihal was lucky to survive his round of golf after a giant sinkhole opened up beneath him and swallowed him up.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the mortgage broker from Creve Coeur, Missouri, is recovering after ending up in the sinkhole on the fairway at the 14th hole of a southwestern Illinois golf course.
The pit that swallowed him was 5.5 metres deep and 3 metres wide.
Mr Mihal's wife, Lori, writing on golfmanna.com, said the pair had only recently watched the story of a Florida man who was killed by a sinkhole.
She said some quick thinking by Mr Mihal's golf buddies, including getting a ladder from the clubhouse, helped to get him out of the hole, which was falling around him.
"I felt the ground start to collapse and it happened so fast that I couldn't do anything," Mark said. "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."
Mr Mihal landed in mud at the bottom of the sinkhole, which was approximately 10' wide.
Mr Mihal, 43, was hoisted to safety with a rope. The encounter at Annbriar Golf Course near Waterloo just southeast of St. Louis left him with a dislocated shoulder.
Although Mr Mihal says he still considers the course one of his favourites, he's having second thoughts about returning there, saying "it'd be kind of strange playing that hole again, for sure."
Mrs Mihal says it is a reminder to everyone to 'hold your loved ones close.'
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