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Now that's a hazard! South Carolina golfer's ball lands on alligator's back
WLOS ^
| Wednesday, April 7th 2021
| Drew Tripp
Posted on 04/07/2021 6:38:19 AM PDT by Rebelbase
OKATIE, SC (WCIV) — Some golfers take twisted pleasure in playing their ball "as it lies" after errant shots on the course, sometimes resorting to bizarre and improbable escape shot attempts rather than accepting a stroke penalty.
We'd hope most would draw the line at alligators. A South Carolina man made the wise choice after he found himself dealing with an amazingly bad lie this week.
In something almost out of Happy Gilmore, golfer David Ksieniewicz said his ball came to a rest neatly atop the back of a roughly 7-foot alligator while playing a round at Okatie's Spring Island Club on Monday.
Fortunately, the official U.S. Golf Association rules account for such a thing in what it calls "abnormal course conditions." That allows players to take "relief" by moving their ball or dropping a new ball in a safe and reasonable location for their next shot without assessing a stroke penalty.
Rule 16.2(a) specifies "dangerous animals" qualify for such relief if their presence near a ball "could cause serious physical injury to the player if he or she had to play the ball as it lies."
TOPICS: Local News; Sports
KEYWORDS: alligator; golf; sc
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posted on
04/07/2021 6:38:19 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
To: Rebelbase
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posted on
04/07/2021 6:38:42 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
To: Rebelbase
"PLAY IT!!!"
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posted on
04/07/2021 6:41:00 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
To: Rebelbase
Fact is stranger than fiction...
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posted on
04/07/2021 6:44:26 AM PDT
by
HombreSecreto
(The life of a repo man is always intense)
To: Rebelbase
S.O.B. is grinning....just waiting for you to come get your ball.
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posted on
04/07/2021 6:46:16 AM PDT
by
ryderann
To: Rebelbase
What are the odds this guy have taken the shot?
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posted on
04/07/2021 6:51:38 AM PDT
by
stars & stripes forever
(Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 33:12))
To: Rebelbase
The course was angry that my friends - like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli.
To: Rebelbase
Get the gator to walk closer to the green.
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posted on
04/07/2021 7:36:58 AM PDT
by
Dutch Boy
To: HombreSecreto
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posted on
04/07/2021 7:40:08 AM PDT
by
nesnah
(Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
To: Rebelbase
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posted on
04/07/2021 7:49:28 AM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: Rebelbase
Take the penalty...drop a new ball!
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posted on
04/07/2021 7:51:31 AM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: stars & stripes forever
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posted on
04/07/2021 8:07:51 AM PDT
by
who knows what evil?
(Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
To: Rebelbase
Where it lies or be a wimp and take a mulligan.
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posted on
04/07/2021 8:13:35 AM PDT
by
bgill
To: Rebelbase
Fortunately, the official U.S. Golf Association rules account for such a thing in what it calls "abnormal course conditions." That allows players to take "relief" by moving their ball or dropping a new ball in a safe and reasonable location for their next shot without assessing a stroke penalty.
That's cheating. You never would have seen such rules in the old days. The golfers were man enough to take on for the team if need be. Next thing you know we will be seeing golfers laying down on their stomachs in protest for the Alligators rights to be part of the game.
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posted on
04/07/2021 8:36:14 AM PDT
by
OneVike
(Just another Christian waiting to go home)
To: Rebelbase
We had a golf course on Keesler (Biloxi). It was a stupid waste of space really. Nobody could use it because it was covered in alligators and going out there was harassing them. Of course, I think they were endangered or threatened back then so maybe thats changed.
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posted on
04/07/2021 9:17:18 AM PDT
by
gnarledmaw
(Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
To: Rebelbase; 07Jack; 2A Patriot; 2nd amendment mama; 4everontheRight; 77Jimmy; ...
South Carolina Ping If you'd like to be on or off the South Carolina ping list, just click Private Reply below and drop me a FReepmail.
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posted on
04/07/2021 3:42:59 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(Corporations don’t pay taxes. They collect them. From us. ~ h/t Little Ray)
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