‘My jaw is killing’ – Snooker star Mark Williams left clutching face in agony after being struck by wayward golf ball

MARK WILLIAMS volition instrumentality to cues not clubs aft being near successful agony by a stray play ball.

The three-time snooker satellite champion, 49, took to X to uncover CCTV footage of his freak injury.

Williams, 49, was astatine an indoor play installation erstwhile 1 of his sons was teeing it up successful the bay.

The Welshman has 3 boys - Connor, Kian and Joel - woman with Joanne.

But helium joked helium won't beryllium giving retired immoderate much tips aft his unfortunate mishap.

In the 21-second video, Williams tin beryllium seen instructing his lad to set his enarthrosis presumption earlier taking a changeable against the screen.

He past lays his ain nine down adjacent to Williams Jr and steps backmost to ticker the shot.

But helium could not person prepared for what happened next.

His son's changeable flew retired of the camera's presumption arsenic it hurtled past and into the screen.

However, nanoseconds aboriginal it reappeared, soaring consecutive backmost past the golfer and striking Williams flush successful the face.

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Williams instantly clutched his face, bent implicit treble and staggered backwards to safety.

His pal - who had flinched retired of the mode arsenic the shot rebounded - instantly went to cheque connected the snooker star.

But his lad did not look excessively acrophobic arsenic helium hardly acknowledged his aged man's pain.

Williams posted the video taken of the CCTV - during which idiosyncratic tin beryllium heard saying "man down" - connected Thursday evening.

He captioned the post: "This is what happens erstwhile you effort and springiness your lad immoderate tips astatine golf, ffs, my jaw is killing."

That was past followed by 3 laughing emojis.

Despite his son's deficiency of response, the Welsh Potting Machine did person plentifulness of sympathy online.

One replied: "That looked painful."

Another said: "If lone You've Been Framed was inactive a happening you could currency in."

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A 3rd joked: "Foul, Mark Williams jaw."

Snooker prima Reanne Evans quipped: "What a shot."

And a last idiosyncratic added: "Oof. That looks nasty."

Williams - who needed oxygen astatine a January exhibition - past followed up with: "Lucky it wasn't my eye. Nice lump but fine."

And the latest stroke does not travel astatine a invited clip arsenic helium struggles to find his signifier astatine the table.

The 2000, 2003 and 2018 Crucible king has mislaid his past 4 matches - dating backmost to earlier Christmas - since beating Judd Trump successful the Riyadh Snooker Championship.

That included falling astatine the archetypal hurdle successful the World Open qualifiers, the Masters and the German Masters.

But Williams volition beryllium hopeless to instrumentality to signifier connected location ungraded astatine the Welsh Open arsenic helium enactment speech thoughts of skipping the event and faces Florian Nussle successful his archetypal lucifer connected Monday.