HOLLY, Mich. -- Police said a 7-year-old boy has died after a friend accidentally struck his head with a child-sized golf club.

Michigan State Police Capt. Harold Love said it happened Friday evening in Holly, an Oakland County village about 40 miles northwest of Detroit.

The victim, Bryce McVety, was playing at the home of the 7-year-old friend while the other boy's father was doing yard work.

As the man walked into his garage to get something, the boys got too close to eachother as they swung the clubs.

The boys were friends since they were 2-years-old and attended Holly Academy together, They were in the second grade.

Love said the friend's father heard a scream around 7:45, ran back out and saw Bryce McVety lying unconscious on the ground. The man took the him to nearby Genesys Regional Medical Center in Grand Blanc, where the child was pronounced dead.

"He was everything to me" Bryce McVety's father, Jeffery McVety, told the Oakland Press. "He loved baseball. He loved fishing. He was a wonderful little boy. He was my world. He was my little buddy."

Funeral services for Bryce McVety will be at the Apostolic Church Tuesday at 11 a.m. and visitation hours will be at the church on Monday from 5 to 9 p.m.

Interment will be at Lakeside Cemetery in Holly. Contributions can be made to the family, online at the Celebration of Life Web site.