Golfer body-slammed, hospitalized after insulting fellow duffer's wife

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This gives new meaning to working on their swings.

A 54-year-old golfer was knocked unconscious, allegedly stopped breathing for 10 seconds and was hospitalized after a wild altercation at a golf course in Indiana last Friday.

The fore-play started at The Links at Heartland Crossing in Morgan County when, according to Golf Digest, a middle-aged man confronted the group in front of him for “cutting,” despite him and his group stopping to order food at the clubhouse.

According to the report, another golfer in his group said “it wasn’t that big a deal” that the other group played through, but the man wasn’t able to let the “proper golf etiquette” slight go.

The altercation turned violent when the man allegedly insulted the wife of one of the men playing through, calling the group “a–holes” and saying the wife was a “c—.”

At that moment, her husband, Jerry Whitaker, demanded an apology after she went “crying back to her group.”

Needless to say, there was no apology.

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The two men reportedly “got in each other’s faces,” per witnesses, and Whitaker allegedly proceeded to slam the so-called agitator to the ground.

According to the outlet, police were told by medical staff that the man suffered seven broken ribs, a punctured lung and a broken piece of vertebrae in his back due to the dust-up.

Whitaker will reportedly be charged with aggravated battery, a Level 3 felony; battery resulting in serious bodily injury, a Level 5 felony; and disorderly conduct, a Class B misdemeanour.

A Level 3 felony in Indiana can carry a maximum prison sentence of up to 16 years.