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Originally Posted by kaydee
I gotta believe that most all of us golfers have at some point gone within several feet of waters edge to hit a retrieve a ball. Trying to save a couple bucks is not the issue..speaking for myself, I'm playing golf and if my ball is found or playable in what I thought would be a safe distance from waters edge then that's where I would have been. Not anymore. As posted, the gator was not visible and it leaped out of the water. Again, speaking for myself, I wouldn't have thought that a gator would have been that aggressive to have been hiding so to speak and then spring out to attack.
I thank the OP for this wake up call.
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Let's put some perspective on this. How many tee times are there each year in the Villages? A couple million. At least one person in each group has probably ventured near the water's edge in search of a lost ball. How many gator attacks have been reported? One, this one and the guy kept playing after the attack and actually parred the next hole. So I think it is safe to assume you will be hit by a car before you're the next gator attack story.