Golfer dies after being hit with tree limb during storm

A 67-year-old Florida man suffered a fatal blow to the head during Thursday's storms when he was hit by a falling tree limb at a DuPage County golf course, autopsy results show.

Rick Snellings of Bradenton, Fl. was pronounced dead at 9:22 p.m. Friday at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, according to a spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Snellings' death was caused by "cranial cerebral injuries from tree limb striking," the spokesman said today.

The spokesman said Snellings had cut his golf game short due to Thursday's threatening storms and was walking back to the Medinah Country Club clubhouse, 6N001 Medinah Road, when the tree limb struck him in the head.

Bloomingdale Fire Chief Dave Christensen said paramedics were sent out to the country club at 3:19 p.m.

"When rescuers got to the patient, he was unconscious, not breathing and without a pulse," Christensen said this morning. "Paramedics recognized he was in traumatic arrest and performed life support on their way to Adventist GlenOaks Hospital."

Snellings was airlifted from GlenOaks in Glendale Heights to Loyola around 7 p.m. Thursday.