text: As any golfer knows, tempers can flare on the course, but they rarely result in a felony.
  
  Prosecutors have filed a second-degree-assault charge against a man accused of using a golf cart to run down and strike a fellow golfer at a Denver course.
  
  Richard Ponds, 57, is accused in the April 3 assault at Wellshire Golf Course.
  
  The victim told police he got into an argument with Ponds because Ponds was sitting in a cart in the middle of the course despite being done golfing, according to an arrest warrant.
  
  The victim told police that Ponds then drove the cart “full speed” at him. When he realized Ponds was not going to stop, the victim said he tried to dive out of the way but was too late.
  
  The affidavit says Ponds then kept driving toward the course’s parking lot.
  
  The victim suffered bruised ribs and a cut to the side of his forehead that required stitches at a hospital, according to the affidavit.
  
  Harold Appell, who works at the pro shop for Patty Jewett Golf Course in Colorado Springs, one of the oldest public courses in the West, said he has seen plenty of head-butting, punches and angry words during his 40 years of golf but never a hit-and-run with a cart.
  
  “It’s public golf. People are crazy,” he said. “What can I say? It’s like road rage — people just get upset.”
  
  Ponds posted $5,000 bail and was released. He is due in court May 17.