THE luck of the Irish was all over Carnoustie in Scotland last weekend as Padraig Harrington won the coveted British Open crown, but one lady from Northern Ireland wasn't so fortunate thanks to an errant shot by none other than Tiger Woods that landed right on her forehead. Jennifer Wilson, a 63-year-old from Co. Antrim, was standing at the sixth hole on Saturday afternoon with her husband Cecil when Tiger did an excellent impersonation of a weekend amateur and hit his second shot into the gallery. The ball opened a gash on Mrs. Wilson's head that required a couple of stitches and some oxygen, and to his credit Tiger immediately rushed over to see if she was all right.

"It was terrible," he told the media afterwards. "I saw the ball bounce out and figured it had to have hit somebody. Unfortunately when I went over there, the lady was bleeding all over the place. I felt really bad. Thankfully she was smiling and I just apologized the best I could."

As Cecil recalls, "We were standing 30 yards short of the green and I said to Jennifer, 'Get your crash helmet on, Tiger's coming.' I could not believe it when Jennifer then got clunked. She just sank to her knees and we laid her down flat."

Tiger signed his glove for Mrs. Wilson, and also the unlucky ball.