SAT word, I'm adopting that 😂 so here's the etymology of the word defenestration.
1620, "the action of throwing out of a window," from Latin fenestra "window."
A word invented for one incident: the "Defenestration of Prague," May 21, 1618, when two Catholic deputies to the Bohemian national assembly and a secretary were tossed out the window of the castle of Hradschin by Protestant radicals (the pair landed in a trash heap and survived). It marked the start of the Thirty Years' War.
Fuck yeah, and you could change your spin on the fly, so if you faded it a little too much you could spin it left and/or directly towards the hole. Putting was super easy too. Good times.
Same. I was like: well i have to wait for the green to clear. Clean hybrid or wood depending on the yardage. I might layup far right to get an angle for a 60y shot. Let's look at the lie..... well looks like a alligator. cancel everything and run opposite way.
Yeah, unless you go out of your way to bother them, you're fine. They're not gonna try to hunt you down for dinner because you're more trouble than you're worth.
Supposedly all their jaw power is on the down bite. Politely ask your playing partner to hold his jaw shut while you take your shot. Bonus points if you're paired with a rando.
That's correct according to the USGA. See rule 16.2 Dangerous Animal Condition:
https://www.usga.org/content/usga/home-page/rules/rules-2019/rules-of-golf/rules-and-interpretations.html#!ruletype=pe§ion=rule&rulenum=16
“…such as when you have interference by an abnormal course condition or a dangerous animal condition.
These conditions are not treated as part of your challenge of playing the course…”
Not part of the challenge? Golfers are p*ssies.
Gators are like puppies. The do not care about you and if you walk towards them they’ll just jump into the water.
Edit: clearly a bunch of people on here have never been around gators before 🤷♂️
See, up north here the same can be said of geese - they'll get out of your way, but sometimes they don't and they start hissing and charging at you. Difference is, getting chased by a goose is just embarrassing, not life threatening.
I watched a member at my club who is notorious for driving through the groups of birds along the fairway and rough drive his cart straight into the pond in anger trying to hit them. I was putting on 18 when this happened behind us on the fairway. Mid stroke we hear yelling, look up and see this guy gunning it while his buddies are telling him not to. This happened in August. The best part was the birds started attacking him in the water as he waded out.
Haven’t heard if he’s coming back this year.
Even if it doesn't jump in the water, gators are so lazy there's very little risk of it making any move at all. Floridians know the real risk is the hidden gators at the waters edge. A sunning gator poses little risk.
Americans are fucking crazy lmao. “The alligator is more afraid of you than you are of it". I may believe you my friend, but no Titleist is getting ME within 30 feet of that thing.
Pick up the ball and come swing by my place in Ponte Vedra for an Arnold Palmer with vodka and then we play a round of 18 at St. John’s country club in the afternoon?
I’m less concerned about the gator, and more concerned over playing behind a 5-ball
Edit, unless flagstick dude is a caddy/guide. In which case the gator is now the problem here
I think you have to be aggressive. Don’t let that gator think it owns the place. Start with driver to land a distance blow and then close in with a 56, maybe even a 60. Then make boots.
Aim for the carts and hope it draws. You’re either safe, on the green, or didn’t put the ball back enough and now you chunked into the water. Im usually that last part.
Edit: thought that was a rock, so i guess I’d be lunch.
1. Hit low stinger glancing off the gator to scare it back in the water.
2. Skip ball across water and onto the green.
3. 5 putt so that you don't drown in overconfidence.
Straight at it and watch it slice into the fairway or possibly right rough!! This hole plays to my strength!!
Edit: yes I saw the gator but I’m from south east Louisiana let that shit rip don’t pay him any mind.
Is that TPC Myrtle? If so that Gator is a menace. My father has a ball in a similar spot and seconds after hitting the shot the Gator surfaced right where he was.
There was also one on a par 3 that was snapping at us.
We also saw a cart being chased by wild turkeys.
Fun round
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Damn alligator bit my hand off
Cut me down in my prime!
Such defenestration in Happy Gilmore 
Had to look up your SAT word and learns something today. Had no idea there's a word for death by being pushed out of a window ...
It’s pretty big in Prague, back in the 1600’s or so they threw a greater than one number of important people out of windows
SAT word, I'm adopting that 😂 so here's the etymology of the word defenestration. 1620, "the action of throwing out of a window," from Latin fenestra "window." A word invented for one incident: the "Defenestration of Prague," May 21, 1618, when two Catholic deputies to the Bohemian national assembly and a secretary were tossed out the window of the castle of Hradschin by Protestant radicals (the pair landed in a trash heap and survived). It marked the start of the Thirty Years' War.
Your prime was a three putt from 7’
Sports Illustrated said that I was the next Arnold Palmer
Yea what happened?
They wouldn't let me play on the pro tour anymore...
Because you’re black?
Hell no! Cause god damn alligator bit my hand off!
Tournament down in Florida, hooked my ball in the rough down by the lake. Damned alligator just popped up!
I wouldn’t hit it past the gator anyway so 6 more strokes til it hits the green. An alligator is the least of my golfing issues
Oh my god
He got me, but I tore one of that bastard's eyes out though. Look at that
You're pretty sick, Chubbs.
*clack clack clack*
I watched this last night, and I had some mushrooms earlier... fucking got me dying over here lol
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“I've mastered the ability of standing so incredibly still, that I’ve become invisible to the eye” - The Alligator
"nothing goes over my head. I'm too fast. I would catch it" -the alligator again
Yeah, tournament down in Florida. Hooked my ball into the rough down by the lake. Damn alligator just popped up!
Don’t worry. It’s made of wood. Real sturdy.
It’s just a lizard
Well I got his head!
You killed a golf legend
Murderer.
I'm dedicating my performance at the Tour Championship to Chubbs' memory.
To hell with that, im playing for chubbs
“I’m playing for Chubbs” “Nuh uh, I called it first”
Spoken like a true asshole.
Cut me down in my prime!!
My pug's name is chubbs peterson lol
It’s all in the hips
I had to hit it off Frankenstein’s fat foot. Play it as it lies.
Cut me down to my prime
That’s not funny sir. Kicked me off the tour…
chubs is that you?
OH MY GOD!!
Casual Sawgrass flex
I thought I recognized this hole from my Tiger Woods golf gaming days
04?
Aiming 50 yards left and power boosting it over the water? Thems were the days
Fuck yeah, and you could change your spin on the fly, so if you faded it a little too much you could spin it left and/or directly towards the hole. Putting was super easy too. Good times.
Yeah! -72 in tournaments became par, and you were always trying to beat that. The best game!
The GOAT
That's the one where if you played skins, the announcer would CLEARLY say 'foreskin' before a hole winning putt.
04>>>>
OP probably hit it in the lake and dropped here for the photo opportunity
Ive player this course like 5 times. It was never this nice when I played it.
Wow I didn’t even notice the alligator until reading the comments. I thought the question was regarding carrying the water or laying up short.
Same. I was like: well i have to wait for the green to clear. Clean hybrid or wood depending on the yardage. I might layup far right to get an angle for a 60y shot. Let's look at the lie..... well looks like a alligator. cancel everything and run opposite way.
Yeah but what is the yardage?
You forgot to mention the finish - 60 yard topper into the drink, rinse and repeat 2x, then lay up.
Topper right down the gators throat
LOL, I know right. I was like, “hit it to the green?” Dno how I missed a big ole gator smack dab center of the screen.
I’m aiming for the right side of the patio and trying to draw it in a bit.
1. Push the random into the pond 2. run
3. Profit?
Is this 18 at sawgrass???
Yes
I just now noticed the dinosour 😂
There’s a reason the mall was shaped like it lol
I was going to say TPC Myrtle, it's 9 or 18 that looks nearly identical.
Play it as it lies
I had to hit it off Frankenstein's fat foot, remember??
Kick him off the tour Doug!!
Honestly, I would. They will only ambush from the water. He will just watch you shank it into the lake. Source: Florida golfer.
Yeah, unless you go out of your way to bother them, you're fine. They're not gonna try to hunt you down for dinner because you're more trouble than you're worth.
Watch me pissing it off by accidently fucking hitting it square in the face.
Those are the rules… I didn’t write ‘em
The gator is just telling you you’re a pussy if you lay up and don’t try to get it over the water.
Supposedly all their jaw power is on the down bite. Politely ask your playing partner to hold his jaw shut while you take your shot. Bonus points if you're paired with a rando.
Yeah this is the obvious move. You learn it first day in golf class
Golf.... class? Look at this guy and his lessons.
Yep. Then thin it into your partner, who then lets go and gets bit by the “really pissed off gator (Irwin voice)”
It just wants pets.
r/petthedamnalligator Edit: Holy shit, I didn't know it was real. Even better.
LoL, amazing… immediately joined.
We had this issue on a trip to Myrtle Beach. We let the guy drop no closer to the hole, and much further away from the alligator.
You “let him”. Lol. I’m not asking permission if that’s my shot.
Yeah no shit lol
"I wasn't *asking*, Kyle... I was *telling* you. I'm dropping back here. Now, kiss my ass."
Exactly. I don't need to win a beer off my buddies badly enough to explain to their widows how and why they got eaten.
That's correct according to the USGA. See rule 16.2 Dangerous Animal Condition: https://www.usga.org/content/usga/home-page/rules/rules-2019/rules-of-golf/rules-and-interpretations.html#!ruletype=pe§ion=rule&rulenum=16
“…such as when you have interference by an abnormal course condition or a dangerous animal condition. These conditions are not treated as part of your challenge of playing the course…” Not part of the challenge? Golfers are p*ssies.
Come on now, that gator is clearly not interfering with the play, he's just out there chilling.
It's in the rule book. It was his right to drop at the nearest location safe from the hazard no closer to the hole.
Gators are like puppies. The do not care about you and if you walk towards them they’ll just jump into the water. Edit: clearly a bunch of people on here have never been around gators before 🤷♂️
Until they don’t for whatever reason. I’m not taking those chances
See, up north here the same can be said of geese - they'll get out of your way, but sometimes they don't and they start hissing and charging at you. Difference is, getting chased by a goose is just embarrassing, not life threatening.
> Difference is, getting chased by a goose is just embarrassing, not life threatening. We associate with different Geese.
I watched a member at my club who is notorious for driving through the groups of birds along the fairway and rough drive his cart straight into the pond in anger trying to hit them. I was putting on 18 when this happened behind us on the fairway. Mid stroke we hear yelling, look up and see this guy gunning it while his buddies are telling him not to. This happened in August. The best part was the birds started attacking him in the water as he waded out. Haven’t heard if he’s coming back this year.
I heard the canopy of an F-14 is super effective against them
They’re only dangerous for adults if you get between a momma and her babies.
Which is something you don’t find out is the case until you’ve lost your arm. No thanks
Meh I grew up in Florida. Don’t go wading around in the reeds where they make their nests and you’ll be fine. Alligator attacks are pretty rare.
Wtf kind of puppy jumps into a lake when you walk towards it lol
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Can confirm
This here is Rocky, and he ain’t no puppy
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Stinger right to the dome
*bonk*
Get out my lob wedge. Guaranteed to be a 200mph ball no more than 2" above the ground.
Bladed it... again...
I worked there for a while, just walk up to your ball that thing will jump right in the water they aren’t dangerous they’re scared of people.
Even if it doesn't jump in the water, gators are so lazy there's very little risk of it making any move at all. Floridians know the real risk is the hidden gators at the waters edge. A sunning gator poses little risk.
Americans are fucking crazy lmao. “The alligator is more afraid of you than you are of it". I may believe you my friend, but no Titleist is getting ME within 30 feet of that thing.
See if it wants to play through?
If this is sawgrass I’m jelly af
Call the ranger. Hit into the group ahead of you as he pulls up.
We have a winner!
Kick him in the handbag!
*Make* a handbag!
Play it as it lies
Grip it and rip it baby
Try not to skull it
I’ve seen this in putt putt before, I think you want to aim in the mouth to get right next to the hole right?
I killed that gator with a seven iron, was arrested and questioned as to “how many times did you hit it” and I said “ put me down for a five “ !
Pick up the ball and come swing by my place in Ponte Vedra for an Arnold Palmer with vodka and then we play a round of 18 at St. John’s country club in the afternoon?
Great fucking course- let's hit Palencia the following day
Dude! I'm from South Africa and we don't even get this wild. Daammm.
That's Florida for you.
I live on Hilton Head Island. When your ball is near water, it becomes subconscious to check for gators while walking up
Gator is saying “I hit a wedge on the green from here”
keep it right
Hit the ball
I’m less concerned about the gator, and more concerned over playing behind a 5-ball Edit, unless flagstick dude is a caddy/guide. In which case the gator is now the problem here
That’s 18 at sawgrass so the 5th is a caddy
Mandatory caddies at Sawgrass.
Take one of those bastards’s eyes out!
Chubbs… you took his hand
You just have smack it in the tail it’ll run back into the water. Gators are pussies
yeah so this guy on reddit said gators are pussies so i went up to it and thats when he bit my leg off
Establish dominance. Hit a stinger right into its forehead. Tell the gator- see what you made me do.
Dominate the gator then rip your shot
I think you have to be aggressive. Don’t let that gator think it owns the place. Start with driver to land a distance blow and then close in with a 56, maybe even a 60. Then make boots.
Easy .22 then new boot goofin
Try and clear the Gator, skull it directly into the Gator, Gator gets mad, I'm not a fast runner, I die playing the sport I love.
Aim right side of the green. Didn't even see the gator till I looked at Comments lol
Hit the f’n ball
Exactly Hit your ball and move away, no harm done.
Aim for the carts and hope it draws. You’re either safe, on the green, or didn’t put the ball back enough and now you chunked into the water. Im usually that last part. Edit: thought that was a rock, so i guess I’d be lunch.
Prayer. Prayer is the move
He’s a good boy. Hit the shot and give him a beef jerky.
1. Hit low stinger glancing off the gator to scare it back in the water. 2. Skip ball across water and onto the green. 3. 5 putt so that you don't drown in overconfidence.
Straight at it and watch it slice into the fairway or possibly right rough!! This hole plays to my strength!! Edit: yes I saw the gator but I’m from south east Louisiana let that shit rip don’t pay him any mind.
Yeah. I've played closer than that to an 8' gator. Me and buddy just keep an eye on the gator while the other hits. They never even move.
Don't be a pussy. Go hit your ball. That gator is just relaxing in the sun. No need to worry.
Put it in the green, wrestle the gator, make a new pair of boots and a belt.
Driver off the deck off the head of gator to within 6ft is my play here! ;)
Free drop
Aim to the hill right of the green and let it draw back in. Edit. Take a drop somewhere else, didn't see the dinosaur.
I’d let him play through.
Do it for Chubbs
Detroit style….hit and run
Either try to hit it across or go to the side
If this is 18, wait till they open their mouth and then putt it in for a free round of golf next time! Putt-Putt Style!
Hit the ball, change underwear!
Wait until they get off the green (while the group behind you waits to tee off), then shank it in the water.
Sack up and hit your shot.
Wait for the green to clear and top it into the water. Then try again until you crisp one Tin Cup style.
Call my life insurance, confirm the payout. Maybe increase. Then take a 5 iron aim over the edge of the water and hope it makes it.
If u get it in his mouth u get a free round
If you’re from Florida just hit it. Never seen a gator?
Play it as it lies
That gator looks so happy. Magnify the picture to see.
Is this Tiburon?
Is that TPC Myrtle? If so that Gator is a menace. My father has a ball in a similar spot and seconds after hitting the shot the Gator surfaced right where he was. There was also one on a par 3 that was snapping at us. We also saw a cart being chased by wild turkeys. Fun round
Sawgrass
Just give him a snoot boop and he’ll move on
Funny, considering the shot, all I saw was the water and thought, AIM RIGHT!
Free drop on the other side of the fairway 😂
Lol I was going to say wait for the green to clear and throw a high one toward the pin…. Then I noticed the gator 😂
Wait until they clear the green. You don’t want to put them in danger ⚠️
Remind yourself you’re not “that guy” and layup …. After drilling on into the water of course
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Cum on it 🫡
Brings a new meaning to "into the teeth"
On to the next hole for me
Wait for the green to clear and drop a draw on the stick
You mean wait for the green to clear and chunk it into the water.
I landed one 3’ from a gator recently and he had no intention of moving so I gave myself a free drop about 10’ away
Silenced 6.5x55 Swede
First glance didn’t realize it was a gator and I was like, “uh i think you hit the ball next” had to take a second look lol
Pull the .357 out the bag
Chubbs… you took his hand
He’s letting you play thru
8 iron
Take his right eye
Stinger, right between the eyes