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Fan Hit By Golf Ball at Fort Worth Tournament Still Smiling at Story

There were some serious highs and lows for one fan at the Dean & Deluca Invitational golf tournament this weekend in Fort Worth. She went from spectator, to hospital patient, to world's biggest fan.

Elisa Buster found herself on the painful end of the longest drive in golf right now. But it's how the pro made it up to her that has his new biggest fan smiling.

"I heard something smack off of something, I turned around and I saw a ball sailing away from Elisa's head," said her fiancé, Beau Coleman.

Butler's head became the unfortunate landing point for one of golfer Tony Finau's notoriously long drives.

"The next thing I knew, I'm just kind of bleeding everywhere so they got me to the ground after that," said Buster.

Buster looked up to see Finau, himself, standing over her with apologies and a signed glove.

"I said I'm so sorry for getting in the way of your ball and then someone goes actually you helped him and it's back in the fairway," said Buster.

She got checked out at the hospital and did not have a concussion. All she needed was a few stitches, and she figured that would be the end of it. But then came a knock on the door.

"Tony (Finau) is at the door," said Buster. "He had flowers and a bag full of chocolates and a get well soon card."

It wasn't quite a romantic gesture.

"No, but I am engaged," said Buster.

Coleman added, "He didn't get off on the greatest foot hitting her in the head with a golf ball so I didn't have to have too much defense there."

It turns out the pro had taken a golf ball to the head himself a few years earlier.

"He goes, 'I still feel those migraine headaches so I just had to check on you.' It was really sweet," said Buster.

But Finau didn't have Buster's secret weapon.

"Definitely Texas hair, there's a poof," said Buster, pointing to the teased crown of her hair.

The higher the hair, the closer to a heavenly-good tale.

"It's worth the story. I have a cool story," said Buster. "He's just genuinely such a great guy."

A cool story and a new friend to follow, from a safe distance.

"I might wear a helmet now when I go," Buster said with a laugh.

Buster said she'll still be careful to make sure no signs of a concussion do show up over the next few days.

A little online searching shows these things do happen, but some estimates put your odds of getting hit by a golf ball as low as .01 percent.

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