Golf continues despite lightning

The golfer was struck on the 14th and 17th holes

A golfer has told how he completed a round despite being hit by lightning twice within 30 minutes.

Pub manager Vincenzo Frascella, 50, of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, was struck on the 14th and 17th holes of the Orton Meadows Golf Course in Peterborough on Wednesday.

Both times bolts struck the tip of his umbrella as he sheltered during storms.

"It's one of those things where you don't know whether you're lucky to be alive or unlucky to have been hit. I actually think I was a bit unlucky," said Mr Frascella, a father of two who has a golf handicap of 25.

"The first time there was a flash and I felt it go down my arm.

It was like needles going all the way from my shoulder down my arm

Vincenzo Frascella, golfer

"The second was a bit worse. It went through my shoulder blade. It was like needles going all the way from my shoulder down my arm.

"I carried on and finished the round. I didn't think too much of it to be honest. I haven't been checked out or anything and I haven't felt any ill effects.

"I won't tell you my score. It was a bad day. But I don't think that was anything to do with the lightning. I just had a stinker."

Mr Frascella said he had been told the chances of lightning striking a person twice were about three million to one.

He added: "It's certainly a day I'll remember."