A Hermosa Beach woman blinded in one eye by an errant flying golf disc at Manhattan Beach’s Polliwog Park has settled a lawsuit against the city for $3 million.

Noreen Goodbody endured four surgeries up to eight hours long each in an unsuccessful attempt to save her vision after suffering a detached retina and traumatic cataract in the wake of the August 2012 accident, said attorney David Lederer of Los Angeles-based Lederer & Nojima.

In the process, she racked up more than $202,000 in medical bills and faces the prospect of more surgeries amid ongoing medical problems caused by the sharp, heavy golf disc slamming into her face.

Goodbody was unable to work for four months as a result of her disfiguring injury, is no longer able to drive on the freeway and finds walking on inclines such as escalator or stairs difficult because she lacks depth perception.

In a statement, City Attorney Quinn Barrow said Manhattan Beach officials were “deeply saddened that this unfortunate accident affected one of our community members. Nevertheless, we are pleased to have reached a settlement agreement.”

Barrow said the majority of the settlement cost was borne by the city’s risk management group policy shared with other Southern California cities. Manhattan Beach, he said, contributed $500,000 to the final settlement amount.

The City Council finally quietly decided to close the disc golf course at the park — the city’s busiest — indefinitely in 2014 following a closed-door City Council meeting, Lederer said.

“I know (my client) was extremely happy they actually shut the course down,” Lederer said. “One of her goals was to make that park safe again.”

But not before a 6-year-old boy sustained a life-threatening brain injury when a golf disc struck him as he played at the park in November 2013, more than a year after Goodbody suffered her horrific injury. Lederer said he has filed a lawsuit in that case, too.

Lederer, along with co-counsel David Ring of Los Angeles-based Taylor & Ring, filed Goodbody’s lawsuit in September 2013.

Why it took a second serious injury before city officials finally banned disc golf at the park is unclear.

City officials did enact a more restrictive disc golf policy in August 2012 after the accident, Lederer said, covering the baskets that acted as golf holes with a vinyl lid during any special events or when the park was at capacity.

At the time Goodbody was hit, she was watching her high-school-age daughter and 70 other kids run a preseason cross-country race at the park.

At least four disc golf course holes required players to throw across paths, another was next to a playground and others had benches on the path to the hole, Lederer said.

Meanwhile, the heavy flying discs — plastic Frisbees used in the 1970s have largely been replaced by heavier custom-made pieces of equipment — can travel at speeds of more than 70 mph for hundreds of yards.

“It’s like no light bulb went off with anybody,” Lederer said. “It all sounded like a great idea, but nobody vetted it, nobody cared … and no one took responsibility.”

Today, there is no mention of disc golf anywhere on the municipal website and a course map has been removed.

Curiously, according to the city’s own Municipal Code, playing disc golf in parks was never legal anyway. The city has an ordinance on the books that bans “the game of golf in any of its forms or refinements.”

But municipal officials ignored that when they paid a company $1,350 to lay out the course in 2005.

An accomplished disc golfer and course designer told the Daily Breeze in 2014 that the busy park was unsuitable for the sport.

Over the years, the city repeatedly dealt with complaints from motorists and others who were hit or narrowly missed being struck by a flying disc.

“There is no way that this type of game should be played at a multiuse park,” Lederer said. “This game should be played on dedicated land like a golf course.

“There’s a reason you can’t go walking on a golf course in the middle of the day,” he added. “Hopefully, in the future people will realize these things don’t belong in parks where people are walking.”