SAIPAN resident Chae Hwang Park, represented by attorney Matthew Holley, has filed a civil lawsuit against Kingfisher Golf Links in Superior Court.
The lawsuit is alleging negligence and is asking the court for mandatory mediation.
In the event the mandatory mediation is unsuccessful, the plaintiff is requesting the court to issue a judgment in his favor awarding $300,000 for non-economic damages such as pain and suffering, emotional distress, and diminished quality of life.
He is also seeking present and future economic and non-economic damages in an amount to be proven at trial.
According to the complaint, on or about March 3, 2022, the plaintiff played golf at Kingfisher.
The plaintiff was a customer and invitee of Kingfisher on its premises.
On that day, at Kingfisher, when the plaintiff hit the golf ball at hole #14, the ball landed in the empty pond. The plaintiff said he slipped and fell in the pond and as a result, sustained injury.
The defendant does its own maintenance of the premises where the plaintiff fell, the lawsuit stated.
It added that the premises where the plaintiff fell were owned, controlled, maintained and/or operated by the defendant.
Holley said defendant knew or should have known that the pond should have been filled with water and that having the pond, while empty, created an invitation for the customers to retrieve their golf balls.
“Specifically, the empty pond had been ignored for years and was dilapidated. The pond had scraps, overgrown algae and other debris making it extremely slippery and dangerous. Despite the dangerous condition, defendant did not have signs advising golfers not to enter the empty pond where plaintiff slipped and fell,” the lawsuit stated.
Over a month ago, another golfer, Antonio Sablan, sued Kingfisher Golf Links for injuries he sustained after the golf cart he was driving flipped.
