Posted on 05/31/2022 11:28:12 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A group was enjoying a day at a Florida golf club when this gator decided he had to get in on the action.
It happened Sunday at Plantation Bay Golf & Country Club in Ormond Beach, according to Mike Harb, who shot the video.
Harb says in the beginning the gator just had the golf ball in his mouth, and briefly spit it out, before once again snatching it up.
The group walks towards the gator as the reptile walks further away from them.
"Chase him closer to the hole that way, just have him drop it in the hole," one man said.
Go Gators!
Do you have to be everyone a round if you get a gator in one?
Buy everyone a round.
Only if you shot it right into his mouth.
Hi.
I was going to say something funny, but gators aren’t funny or to be messed with. Unless you want to turn them into belts, boots and purses.
Fried gator tail is delicious.
The damn things are quick, but short range. They can kill humans. Dogs and cats are
hors d’oeuvres.
All Florida lakes, rivers and ponds have gators. Act accordingly.
PSA
5.56mm
One of the many reasons I stay out of Florida.
Especially Bulldogs.
I was playing Pompano Municipal Golf Course on the straight fairway that parallels US1. I hit a great shot, dead straight and about 250 yards.
As our foursome approached we watched as a 6+ foot long iguana ran into the middle of the fairway, grabbed my ball, and ran off into the bushes. If you have never seen an iguana run at full speed it is really something. It looks like a cartoon...their legs move in a weird, circular motion, kind of like wheels.
We were having a good laugh as we approached the bushes, discussing the rules and how they apply to this situation. We parted the branches and saw mama iguana sitting on a huge pile of golf balls. She looked at us, opened her mouth, and let out a creepy hiss.
We retreated. All agreed that a non-penalty drop near where my ball first landed was in order.
Chase an alligator? You have to be a special kind of stupid to do that.
Poor Mama Ig must have waited a LONG time for those balls to hatch.
Isn’t there a rule about disruptive “persons” on the green? And means of preventing them?
THat’s good... I’d probably have declared ‘winter rules”, which pretty much covers anything year-round in friendly play!
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