It looks like golfers might have to start wearing protective cups.

South Africa’s Jacques Kruyswijk, who plays professionally on the South African Sunshine Tour, hit a ball in a recent tournament that ricocheted off a tree … into his groin.

Kruyswijk slices down onto the ball, and it comes right back to hit him where it surely hurts. The ball strikes him before he even completes his swing and he winces in pain. He walks away from the tree before collapsing to his knees and falling to the ground.

Adding insult to injury, he was smacked with a one-stroke penalty after the ball made contact with his body. He finished the hole in seven strokes.

Kruyswijk is currently ranked 692 in the world, according to the official World Golf Rankings.