The golf world is in extreme mourning this week after news passed down that a New Mexico college golf team had been killed an accident.
Six students and the team’s head coach tragically lost their lives in a head-on car crash, according to a report from the Associated Press.
Via the Associated Press:
“Sgt. Steven Blanco says a pickup truck crossed the center line of a highway Tuesday night and crashed into a vehicle carrying members of the University of the Southwest men’s and women’s golf teams. They had been returning from a tournament in Midland, Texas.
Blanco says six students were killed, along with a faculty member. The driver of the pickup and its passenger were also killed.”
The University of the Southwest men’s and women’s golf teams were traveling back from a tournament when the accident occurred in Texas.
According to the report, two more students involved were taken by helicopter to a Lubbock hospital in critical condition.
Prayers to everybody involved, especially for the families whose world just got turned upside down by the tragic deaths.
