CINCINNATI, Ohio — Lightning struck the ground at a Greater Cincinnati golf course, leaving behind a bizarre, web-like pattern.
An employee at Ivy Hills Country Club in Newtown captured a video of the green last week, the morning after a storm rolled through the area.
“This is what happens when lightning strikes the ground,” staff member Jason Harack said in a clip posted to his TikTok, which has since garnered more than 3 million views. Harack showed the marked area on the green near hole No. 2 in the video and said the pattern looked like a brain neuron.
Lightning has struck in the area before, but never in a spot that visible, Mark Decker, the country club’s general manager, told The Cincinnati Enquirer. If the lightning had struck the ground in one of the golf course’s rough areas, or in tall grass, it wouldn’t have been visible, he said.
Over the weekend, Decker said staff moved the golf cup to the middle of the strike pattern, where he reported an unlikely three holes-in-one were made.