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Philadelphia PGA pro killed in storm after tree crashes into clubhouse

A PGA pro died this week at his course in Philadelphia after a tree fell onto the pro shop and cart barn during a storm, according to Golf Digest.

Justin Riegel, the head professional at Philmont Country Club just north of Philadelphia, was helping bring carts in from the rain when a thunderstorm knocked down a tree into the buildings, killing him. He was 38.

“The storm blew in and everyone was rushing in,” Kelli Patrick, an employee at the course, told ABC 6, “and before we knew it a tree fell.

Riegel, per ABC 6, was one of four people killed during the storm.