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What is your strangest experience on a golf course?

Chad Collins

By Chad Collins
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Played at a course in Tampa Bay, Florida many years ago when an alligator strolled across the fairway. Needless to say we were not attempting to retrieve our balls from the water that day.


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David in FL
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On the first tee a couple of years ago, about ready to tee off when we hear a bunch of shouting...... above us.  A hot air balloon is coming right at us.  Landed right on the box!  Pilot apolog

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I play a course that is bordered by a county park which is bordered by a local college....... It was early fall and we here on the 7th hole and we seen a bunch of clothes piled on the ground next to b

inthehole
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I share your experience.    First year I played, my buddy & I just tee'd off and started walking down the fairway & a black bear walked out around 75 feet in front of us - waaaaaaaay to close

Chuckles76 Member

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#9 at Bayou Din in Beaumont.

• taylormade.gif 2009 Burner 10.5 driver w/ stock shaft

• taylormade.gif R7 irons store shelf stock w/ Rocketballz 55 SW

• taylormade.gif Rescue 23 degree

• taylormade.gif #3 FW 2009 Burner

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Chuckles76 Member

Chuckles76

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I didn't think about that. We see alligators so often in southeast texas that we've learned to check the area before getting close to any water. My first experience with an alligator was sort of funny, though. I was playing 18 at "The Palms" at Pleasure Island in Port Arthur, TX, when we see an 8-footer with 1 front leg lifted and standing perfectly still. We actually thought that it was a statue because we were golfing noobs and hadn't seen a gater on a course. My buddy throws a golf ball at it and the gater takes off back to the pond. We both run screaming like school girls back to the cart and got the hell outta dodge!!

• taylormade.gif 2009 Burner 10.5 driver w/ stock shaft

• taylormade.gif R7 irons store shelf stock w/ Rocketballz 55 SW

• taylormade.gif Rescue 23 degree

• taylormade.gif #3 FW 2009 Burner

ping.gif Putter


BallStriker Great Member

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I was playing in AZ with my dad and girlfriend at the time......my girlfriend hit a worm-burner that hit a duck square about 50 yards away and obviously hurt its leg pretty badly (it waddled into the nearby lake).....she was immediately in tears and me, being an as&hole;, couldn't stop laughing for about 10 minutes....

"Getting paired with you is the equivalent to a two-stroke penalty to your playing competitors"  -- Sean O'Hair to Rory Sabbatini (Zurich Classic, 2011)


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Is that Bayou Din in Beaumont,TX?


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#9 at Bayou Din in Beaumont.

Just saw this. I actually played there this morning. Can't believe that I recognized it from that picture. Especially since I thought it was from the 14th hole, not the 9th.


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