A teenager was killed when he slammed his golf club against a bench and the club's broken shaft snapped back and pierced his heart.

Jeremy T. Brenno, 16, was playing golf with friends at the Kingsboro Golf Club Saturday when he whacked the bench with his No. 3 wooden club at the sixth hole after a bad shot.The broken shaft pierced Brenno's pulmonary vein and he bled to death, Fulton County Coroner Paul Decker said.

Gloversville is about 40 miles northwest of Albany.