A golfer who suffered a stroke after having been hit on the head by a golf ball, has been awarded just under €275,000 damages in the High Court.

A golfer who hit the shot where a ball struck a woman on the head as she stood on a clubhouse balcony yesterday told the High Court it was a freak, wayward shot.

A golfer described in court how he ran to the club house when he heard his wife had been hit with a golf ball to find her with blood pouring from her head.