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TROON, Scotland -- Marco Dawsons first British Open is proving to be an eventful one.The 52-year-old Senior British Open champion reached the eighth green during his first practice round at Royal Troon on Tuesday when his caddie for the week, standing about 10 feet away, was knocked to the ground by an errant drive from Vijay Singh from the seventh tee.Ive never seen anyone get hit by a ball like that, Dawson said Wednesday. It came down square on him. Not a glancing blow. He went in and out of consciousness. Threw up a couple of times because he was getting faint. We didnt know how bad it really was.The caddie, Billy Ciplinski out of the nearby golf club at Prestwick, was taken to a medical center at Royal Troon and then onto a hospital. He stayed there overnight under observation before being discharged Wednesday.Ciplinski came straight to Troon, sporting a cut the size of a golf ball on the back of his head, and told Dawson hed be OK to carry his bag for the opening round Thursday.They didnt put in any stitches, they just glued it. That was it, Dawson said. We got lucky.It was Ciplinskis wedding anniversary on Tuesday -- and he spent it with his wife, after all. She works as a physicians assistant at the hospital where Ciplinski was transferred.Dawson aborted his round Tuesday after Ciplinski collapsed, and finished it off on Wednesday using 60-year-old Johnny McMillan, who works as a luggage handler at Royal Troon, as an emergency caddie.It was great, McMillan said. Im desperate to get a bag during the Open.Dawson qualified for Royal Troon by winning the Senior Open at Sunningdale last year. That was his second win on the PGA Tour Champions. Before that, the American made 512 starts and won just once -- on the second-tier Web.com Tour in 2002.Hell head into Thursday having played 18 holes at Troon, but he thinks thats enough.Thats the reason why I got a local caddie, Dawson said. The caddie I had last year at Sunningdale was local and when the conditions changed every day, he knew exactly how the course played. He told me what club to hit, gave me all the information.Its about executing the shot.Hunter Renfrow Raiders Jersey . Andrew Luck lost his favourite target and the Indianapolis locker room lost one of its most revered leaders when Reggie Wayne was diagnosed Monday with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee that will cost him the rest of the season. Oakland Raiders Jerseys . Vancouver Whitecaps and Toronto FC failed to make the postseason while Montreal Impact fell at the first hurdle losing heavily to Houston Dynamo in the Eastern Conference Knockout Round. http://www.shoptheraidersonline.com/Elite-Lyle-Alzado-Raiders-Jersey/ . Rinne played two periods in his first game since left hip surgery in early May. Gabriel Bourque scored 3:07 into the second period and Austin Watson tallied 5:15 later for Nashville. Dave Casper Womens Jersey . The Dutchmans tenure got off to a poor start when referee Guido Winkmann awarded a penalty within two minutes for Niklas Starks clumsy challenge on Alexandru Maxim. Custom Oakland Raiders Jerseys . Coach Mike Munchak says Fokou stretched ligaments in his left knee Oct. 13 against Seattle, which could keep out up to five weeks even though the linebacker didnt need surgery.WASHINGTON -- Al-Jazeera America is asking a judge to dismiss defamation lawsuits filed by two Major League Baseball players over statements made in the broadcasters documentary about performance-enhancing drugs in sports.Lawyers for the news organization and for Ryan Zimmerman of the Washington Nationals and Ryan Howard of the Philadelphia Phillies appeared Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Washington. The suits, which were consolidated into one Tuesday, refer to the documentary The Dark Side: Secrets of Sports Doping, broadcast by Al-Jazeera America in December 2015.The suit alleges a phharmacist who appeared in the documentary made false statements when he said Zimmerman and Howard took banned performance-enhancing drugs.ddddddddddddMajor League Baseball investigated the allegations and said it found no violations of its drug agreement.After more than two hours of arguments Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said she would issue a written ruling on whether the case should be dismissed. But she did not say when she would rule. ' ' '