Chubbs would approve.
Billy Horschel, the world’s No. 20 participant, took issues into his personal hand by chasing an invading alligator again into the water in a wild scene on the Cognizant Basic on Thursday.
Horschel — who mockingly is a Gator after attending the College of Florida — poked the invading animal together with his 60-degree wedge to make the alligator retreat.
“I’m not afraid of gators. As I tell people, they’re more afraid of you, majority of the time,” Horschel stated. “They’re only going to come after you during mating season where they’re a little aggressive and then if you’re around their nest when they got some eggs. Majority of the time, listen, they’re fine.”
Whereas some — possibly many — might have been scared to see an alligator roaming close to them on a golf course, Horschel, a Florida native, had no such worries.
He had observed the alligator whereas making ready to stroll to the seventh gap at PGA Nationwide in Palm Seashore Gardens, Fla., and a police officer strolling with him unsuccessfully tried to wave off the animal.
The officer didn’t have something on him, although, to help his effort.
“As (Cameron Young) said, before I went over there, ‘What is he going to try to do? Use the taser on him?’” Horschel joked. “But I think he would have to get a little close on that one to try to make it effective.”
Horschel then took issues into his personal arms, recognizing somebody must stroll to the eighth gap to seize a rake or he might simply do it himself because the gator was “going nowhere good.”
He took his wedge and nudged the alligator on its proper aspect whereas it meandered throughout the course, inflicting the alligator to show 90 levels and begin scurrying towards the water.
Horschel then adopted the inexperienced animal till it plopped again into the water, incomes a spherical of applause from these close by.
The 38-year-old joked that fortunately he had grabbed considered one of his 60-degree wedges since he has two extras.
Horschel shot 5-under on the primary day of the occasion.
“I’ve never touched a tail with my hand, but I’ve done it with a club,” Horschel stated. “It’s not that big of a deal.”
