A day catching up with friends and soaking in the scenery on a beautiful mountain golf course in Colorado this weekend ended with a golfer's kidney sliced in half by an angry elk.
Zak Bornhoft, 41, and his three friends were two holes away from completing the Evergreen Golf Course, located outside of Denver, on Saturday. The 18-hole course overlooking the Evergreen Lake is known for having "spectacular views from every tee," according to its Facebook page.
This was one reason, Bornhoft said, he wanted to play golf on this course.
But views of green tree tops and blue sparkling water weren't the only thing the golfers would experience. They were met by dozens of elk roaming freely around the course. "The golfing went pretty good throughout the day until we got to the back nine and saw all the elk," Bornhoft told CNN in a phone interview from the hospital.
He said they tried to steer clear of the animals and keep their distance. Bornhoft and one of his friends were in a golf cart between the 16th and 17th hole when a bull elk charged at them. "This bull elk was just eyeing us down," Bornhoft said. "We were slowly going forward and he started charging at us and he missed. My buddy gassed it to get away and the elk gored me on my right side."
The elk's antler punctured Bornhoft in the back side of his right hip, going in deep enough to slice his left kidney into two pieces. He was rushed to a local hospital where he continues to recover.
"It was unbelievable," he told CNN. "(The elk) was just freaked out and there was nothing we could do."...
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