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Brooks Koepka offers a golf glove to a spectator that he hurt when his ball struck him on the sixth hole during his four-ball match on the opening day of the 42nd Ryder Cup at the National Golf Course in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.(Photo: AP)

A female The spectator who was touched by Brooks Koepka's T-shirt at the Ryder Cup lost the vision of her right eye, the spectator told AFP.

Corine Remande, 49, was watching action Saturday at the National Golf, near Paris, when the wandering Koepka Road at the sixth hole, normal 4, hit her face. Remande stated that the force of the impact had caused a fracture of the right orbit and an "explosion of the eyeball".

"It happened so fast that I felt no pain when I was touched," Remande said. "I did not feel that the ball had hit my eye, and then I felt the blood flowing."

The doctors were able to stitch her eye, but they told Remande that she would probably never see it again.

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"At best, she may be able to see forms after the bruises have cleared up in a month or two," said Raphael, Remande's husband, who traveled to France with his wife. in France.

After striking Remande, Koepka rushed to her and apologized. He signed a glove before continuing to play the hole.

"It's not a fun feeling," Koepka said. "I probably do it a lot more than I should have, it seems like we're hitting every week pretty much every week, it's unfortunate."

Corine Remande does not blame Koepka, though. She plans to take legal action against tournament organizers.

"Obviously, there is a responsibility on the part of the organizers," she said. "The officials did not shout warning when the player's ball went into the crowd.

"… Most of all, I want them to take care of all the medical bills to make sure there is no risk of infection."

A spokesman for the PGA European Tour told the Telegraph that he was "actively investigating the incident".

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