Snooker icon Mark Williams suffers freak injury after being struck in FACE by golf ball

Snooker prima Mark Williams was trying to lend immoderate golfing proposal to his lad erstwhile helium was deed successful the look by an errant shot that was fortunate to miss his oculus and the Welshman shared the video

Snooker fable Mark Williams was near clutching his look aft being struck by his son's golf ball.

The three-time world champion saw immoderate fatherly proposal rapidly repaid connected a travel to the driving range. After providing immoderate tips to 'his boy' astatine the tee, Williams stood backmost to ticker his handiwork successful action.

After 1 afloat swing, nary sooner had the shot near the tee than it was rebounding instantly backmost successful the absorption of the Welsh Potting Machine. The 49-year-old rapidly brought his hands to his look and was bent implicit successful agony earlier leaning implicit a array successful his bid to effort and recover.

Williams appeared to flight without immoderate important injury, and seemed to instrumentality the script successful bully spirits. The snooker prima adjacent posted footage of the incidental connected his X account.

He commented successful his post: "This is what happens erstwhile you effort and springiness your lad immoderate tips astatine golf, ffs, my jaw is killing." That was followed by 4 laughing emojis.

While a person of Williams tin beryllium seen rapidly moving to cheque connected the winner of 26 ranking titles. Williams' lad meantime stood nonplussed by the incidental and watched from a distanced arsenic helium prepared his adjacent shot astatine the range.

A further station connected X saw Williams comment: "Lucky it wasn't my eye. Nice lump but fine."

"Oof. That looks nasty," said 1 sympathetic follower. Another added: "Wow, that'll hurt."

"Body enactment Cricket with a play ball," work a further reply to the CCTV footage. One idiosyncratic adjacent suggested Williams could person antecedently made wealth from the incident.

"That's brilliant," they said. "If lone you've been framed was inactive a happening you could currency in."

Another pointed out: "Your lad didn’t flinch"

The past miscue Williams was a unfortunate of whitethorn person seen little carnal harm but whitethorn person been arsenic painful. The seasoned stunned fans connected his mode retired of the 2025 Masters erstwhile helium whiffed the achromatic wide of it's people to let Ding Junhui backmost successful a framework helium was leading.

Williams' look said it each and from that infinitesimal helium was incapable to comeback aft his hostile capitalised to instrumentality the frame.

"Wow," said commentator Dennis Taylor successful effect to Williams' miscue. "Now we've seen everything, Mark. We've talked astir that extremity that Mark Williams has and however hard it is. I can't retrieve him miscuing it much, but what a clip to miscue."

"He had 1 hellhole of a tally with the balls but those are the good margins," said Williams arsenic helium looked to explicate his exit. "I deliberation the tally of the shot outgo maine but I've had plentifulness successful my time. You inactive person to marque the breaks and helium did."