This is what it's like to be hit by a pro golfer's shot - CNET

Unless, that is, the shot comes straight at you.

Then what do you do?

David Gregoik of Dallas told me his friend was holding the phone when Cauley launched his projectile. Gregoik said the friend, whom he didn't name, was at his first golf touament.

The friend didn't know you aren't supposed to record or take photos at golf touaments.

Gregoik said the pair were standing right in front of a TV tower and, though it looks as if they were in the line of fire, they actually weren't.

"The ball popped out pretty far left and hot. Right at us," Gregoik told me. "I tued and the ball hit me in the knuckle, hence the loud pop noise when it hit."

He said they were around 15 yards away from Cauley.

Gregoik said Cauley did come up and ask if he was alright. But that's as far as the conversation went.

"I was hoping to get a signed glove," Gregoik said. "All I got was a bruised knuckle."

Life's like that, David. Sometimes pain comes with no compensation.

The recording was posted to Twitter by Milwaukee Bucks senior sales associate Devin Grainger, a friend of a friend.