Alligator interrupts PGA Tour Valspar Championship

An alligator interrupted Charley Hoffman’s round at the Valspar Championship Friday.

When golfing in Florida, there’s always a chance an alligator may peak up from the Florida swamps, ponds and rivers or even find his way onto a golf course and just that happened at the PGA Tour’s Valspar Championship Friday when a gator interrupted Charley Hoffman’s round.

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According to the Associated Press, Charley Hoffman laid up in front of the water hazard and as he walked to his ball he nearly had an interaction with an alligator that hobbled across the fairway from one swamp to another swamp on the other side of the hole.

Charley Hoffman, John Senden and Woody Austin waited for the gator to make his way across.

“Rarely do they walk in the middle of the fairway and halt play,” Hoffman said according to the AP. “We weren’t going anywhere fast. And neither was he.”

According to the AP, shockingly this isn’t Hoffman’s first interaction with that gator.

He recalled playing in the pro-am at the Valspar Championship about six years ago when one of the amateurs talked about grabbing gators by the tail. Hoffman said he pointed to the gator and offered his amateur $100 to pick it up by the tail.

“Not touch it, but pick it up by the tail,” Hoffman said. “He walked over there and picked it up by the tail. It was slightly smaller, but it was huge then. And I gave the guy $100.”

Kids, don’t flirt with gators on the golf course, or anywhere for that matter.

This latest golf and gator interaction comes just days after popular images of a gator on a golf course in Florida rocked the internet.

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