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What Happened to Brodie Smith at 2024 Worlds? Bee Attack Forces DNF
Brodie Smith's dominating performance at the 2024 Worlds was suddenly cut short in a shocking and painful incident involving a bee attack. The event occurred on a par-5 hole, where Brodie was playing alongside fellow pro Clayton. As they navigated the challenging course, they employed various techniques, including throwing discs from elevated positions and using cart paths to avoid obstacles. In a surprising display of camaraderie, Clayton even ran down the hill to rethrow his disc after it hit a rock, allowing Brodie to continue his round with minimal delay. However, during Brodie's next shot, he was caught off guard by an aggressive yellow jacket that landed on his calf. The sudden and unexpected attack left Brodie momentarily stunned, forcing him to quickly dispatch the bee in order to finish his game. The incident serves as a reminder of the unique challenges and risks involved in professional disc golf competitions.
Brodie Smith's shocking experience at 2024 Worlds: bee attack forces unexpected departure from competition, earning a DNF.
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but let me just quickly just tell everyone with down so everyone knows moving forward so I'm playing whole 15 the par five you're playing up the golf like uh tea boxes and then you go into like kind of the wooded area in between holes so in a golf course you would never step foot in that you're actually just driving around the cart path you would never go into it right so I am 100 feet away from the basket it's directly uphill probably actually more steep than any other of the hills that we play on all week uh Gavin is right next to me he goes first he throws his shot up there lands boom I go second I do the exact same thing throw my shot up there hits a rout hits a rock hits something turns up starts rolling rolls past me rolls another 100 ft down the hill OB okay so uh I was playing with um who was I playing with uh shoot I'm trying to remember hold on one second one second one second stall Julie stall Clayton I was playing with Clayton uh sorry I was playing with Clayton super nice guy he actually like ran down the hill because I was like hey did that go B cuz I can just rethrow I don't have to go all the way down 200 feet to throw again he's like yeah I did so I proceed to grab uh he gives me the get freaky that I threw so I proceed to throw the same shot up there basically but this time I threw with a different disc cuz I was like I don't want to risk it again Bad Karma whatever you know superstitious this one rolled down let me throw a different one up there as I go to walk to my cart which is 4 feet away from me and mind you I'm in the middle of the Fairway I haven't left the middle of the Fairway I'm in the middle of Fairway 100 feet from the basket all of a sudden I feel like someone just took a 6 inch needle into my left calf and I'm like what the heck is that and I look down and there's a yellow jacket on my calf so what is anyone's first instinct get this thing off my calf...
