Vince Whaley has an audience with a set of teeth. He hits shot with alligator behind him
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Vince Whaley stepped into the water to play a shot and a 6-foot spectator with a full set of teeth was watching closely. He still turned his back on the alligator and saved par.
Whaley figures the gator was about 20 feet away in the water when he played his shot from the bank on the par-5 11th hole Sunday in the Sanderson Farms Championship.
He was one shot out of the lead at the time, and yes, he was fully aware of the gator eyeing him, the full head above water.
“Well, thankfully my back was to him so I could focus on the shot for a second,” Whaley said, adding he had “a lot of trust” in his caddie monitoring the situation.
The gator never moved. Whaley splashed out short of the putting surface and got up-and-down for par. He wound up with a 67 and tied for third.
And the plan if the gator had moved?
“The plan was to get the hell out of the water,” he said.
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