Those of us that golf in Arizona are familiar with issues with snakes but golfing in the Low Country in South Carolina brings on a hazard of a different order of magnitude. While snakes are also an issue here there are other issues and here is the hazard that I encountered yesterday.  

My ball was no more than 15 feet from this fellow. Descretion being the better part of valor I did not actually measure him but he was somewhere between 8 and 10 feet. Needless to say, it did not take me long to play the shot and exit stage right! This was not the only alligator we saw yesterday but was the only one that brought an increase in the heart rate.