Report: Gigantic Alligator Taking over Greens at Florida Golf Course

As a former Floridian who has consumed beers on a number of the Sunshine State’s less prestigious golf courses, I can affirm that alligators are not a new sight around links south of Valdosta, Georgia.

What Floridians are not used to seeing, however, are dinosaurs from the late Cretaceous period taking up residence three feet from the hole.

According to a report from WPTV in West Palm Beach, this appeared to be the way of things at a golf course in Englewood, Florida, over the weekend, where images have emerged of a monstrous alligator stalking the greens at Myakka Pines Golf Club. 

Golfers named Bill Susie and Dick Huber took pictures of the animal and shared them with the club. Honorably, the course posted the pictures on its Facebook page as an interesting tidbit/warning to locals. 

According to the WPTV report, the gator was traversing from pond to pond near the green at No. 7, stopping periodically to sun itself and claim dominion over the pin.

Again, alligators are old hat in Florida—just not ones that look like juvenile versions of the Sarcosuchus. When an alligator looks like you could stack two skateboards and roll them through its standing legs, that’s a big gator. 

Of course, hoaxes are always possible, and until someone recovers Chubbs’ hand from its stomach, we won’t have definitive proof this titan exists. 

Until then, play it safe. Just stay in the cart, sip your John Daly and drive right past No. 7. 

Dan is on Twitter. He got out of Florida before that damn alligator could cut him down.