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[jimmy40]

Golfer loses arm in gator attack
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Associated Press

BEAUFORT, S.C. -- Officials say an alligator bit off part of a golfer's arm as he leaned over to pick up his ball at a private South Carolina course.

The man, who is in his 70s, was retrieving his ball from a pond when the 10-foot alligator bit him at Ocean Creek Golf Course in Beaufort County. The gator pulled the golfer into the pond and ripped off his arm in the struggle. His golf partners were able to free him.

Wildlife workers killed the alligator and retrieved the arm in the hopes it might be reattached.

The man has not been identified. He was being treated at the Medical University of South Carolina, but officials there would not release any information about him.

A call to the golf course was not immediately returned.

 

[joseephuss]

I have played on golf courses with gators and snakes. If(when) I hit the ball into the water I do not go over to fetch it out. Even if I don't see the gator I know they are there and something like this could happen.

I was playing at a course one day with some friends and on about the 12th hole we hear a gun shot coming from a water pond that was close to us. The course manager blew away a water moccasin with a shot gun. Apparently a group ahead of us saw it and called him over.

 

[jimmy40]

I have played on golf courses with gators and snakes. If(when) I hit the ball into the water I do not go over to fetch it out. Even if I don't see the gator I know they are there and something like this could happen.

I was playing at a course one day with some friends and on about the 12th hole we hear a gun shot coming from a water pond that was close to us. The course manager blew away a water moccasin with a shot gun. Apparently a group ahead of us saw it and called him over.

now that could screw up a backswing.:laugh2:

 

[Rampage]

this is like the true story of Chubbs in Happy Gilmore.

 

[jimmy40]

this is like the true story of Chubbs in Happy Gilmore.

I just wonder if the old man was actually getting his ball or if he was just fishing for balls and making the group behind wait like a lot of these old bastids do.

btw old man: ball retriever.