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Lighting struck a golf course in Texas and the results are breathtaking

Yes, in case you were wondering, this is an actual thing that happens when lightning strikes golf courses. The electrical current runs through the roots of the grass and fries them, leaving behind a flowery pattern.

This pattern, according to the Weather Channel, are from a course in Texas:

Dodge told weather.com that he figured out pretty quickly what had happened. “We looked at pictures of different lightning strikes online and came to the conclusion that’s what it was,” Dodge said.

His reaction when first discovering the green had been struck by lightning, Dodge said, “Hey cool!” He said he’d never witnessed a golf course green being struck by lightning before.

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