Golfing can be dangerous!

He ought to have had a gun, reyn. He must not pay attention to David's posts.

I would presume that the pond that the alligator was in was probably murky?

I bet no one else is going to be sticking their arms into golfing water traps, in the area, for the next while.

On every golf course I have been to in alligator country (Florida, SC, parts of Ga and Alabama), there are signs warning golfers NOT to attempt to retrieve balls from ponds, streams, or anyplace gators can hide.

We were doing some Phosphate mining work in central Florida some years ago and and another guy and I were dragging a pump hose to a small sinkhole pond to provide water for the drill rig. I dug a small depression in the sand in the area next to what was a crystal clear pond. OUT of the margin of the pond at shallowest depth a 5 ft alligator (he hads his head in the water and his body hidden in the pond margin) did a quick turn in the air and was at us in a split second /****** missed by boot by inches (I did a little "moon walk" and drew my one leg back out of his grasp). My partner clobbered the alligator with a hammer and the incident was over. The little fuckers can hide in inches of clear water in those ponds and they blend so well with the grasses that you can step on one and not see it till youre missing an extremity.

Theres too many of the goddamm things and carrying a piece is an option only if you are good at handling it, otherwise , Id expect someone would shoot themselves in the foot, (or like a friend in high school who was practicing quick draws with a .22 pistol and shot himself in the thigh as he was drawing the gun from the holster).

Alligators have taken many a pet in the Sebring sand pond area over the years. Ususally these sinkhole ponds have a small grassy margin where the bulk of the gator sits and his head is near the waters edge . They can get you forward and they can get you in a quick turn .

Wow!!! That was a close call for you!! Glad to hear you weren't injured.

And I only used to worry about pitbulls and rottweilers when I was meter reading!

They use an organic alligator repellant in Vancouver

Apparently, in Louisiana, they incorporate the Alligator into their local Celtic celbrations.

Golf's an Olympic sport.

yeh, go figure.

Well, I can't honestly say I've run into any outside of the zoo here.


Tell me you're kidding, right?

Perhaps it could become more Olympic if they introduced some roving alligators in different parts of the course.

Thats the repellent working

Scout's honor.