judge jeanine: wow. and so no more hole would fall in. we wanted to see how secure it was. and then i had this flash light in my pocket. judge jeanine: mark, what injuries did you is suffer? i dislocated my shoulder. found out recently yesterday i have a couple of fractures there. surgery you scheduled for wednesday this week to try to get that all fixed. judge jeanine: we wish you luck. i mean did you turn in your score arecard? no, i was doing well, too. i wish i could have. imale anxious to get the surgery over with and get back out there. judge jeanine: i m sure you will with a good friend like ed there. you are lucky. we are used to sinkholes in florida. not in illinois. crazy stuff! didn t yeah, we didn t think there were now sinkholes around here so. it was very crazy. judge jeanine: ed and mark thanks for being with us. thanks for having us.
the hole? everything. it was probably 15 to 20 feet deep when i hit the bottom. judge jeanine: okay. and ed, when he is in the hole what do you do? well, my we didn t know there was even a hole there. and his partner started yelling mark just fell in a hole is so i called and he is hurt. he is hurt. he is yelling. and i called the pro shop and i said send a rope and a ladder and an ambulance because your friend is hurt, he fell on the 14th fairway. and then i judge jeanine: go ahead. you get a ladder? well, while we were waiting for the ladder we kind of tried to assess how mark was because there was like a cut in the turf. it looked like somebody cut a carpet with a 3.5-foot indentation and so we i laid on my stomach. hank martinez held my ankles as i could get towards the hole.
you waited all week to get there. the sun is shining. the views are beautiful. the greens are perfect. your swing is back. you re hitting them long and hard. the dream comes together and then judge jeanine: my next guest was on the 14th hole when the bottom literally fell out in under him. mark joins me along with his golfing buddy ed who saved him. gentlemen, thanks so much for being with us. mark, you are on the 14th hole. you are playing golf. it is a beautiful day. what happens? it was a great day on the 14th hole. just laid up on the par 5. looking for yardage for are a friend of mine. i saw a depression in the fairway.
went over to kind of check out what was going on and took one step in and next thing you know i m freefalling. judge jeanine: mark, you had absolutely into idea. the ground wasn t moving. there was no indication that the earth was going to literally open under and swallow you? no, the ground wasn t moving. there was a depression in the fairway. it didn t look unstable. i went to check it out to see what was going on and then took one step in and it was like a trap door. i was just falling into blackness. all right. and ed, you you are playing golf with him. i mean you are on the 14th hole. are you you facing him? are you next to hit? what happens? well, he hits the ball really far so i was behind him. and i could see his waist up and next thing you know he just disappeared in the middle of the fairway. judge jeanine: now, mark i should say you ended up going down. how much of your body went into