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Golf fans are accustomed to hearing a curling putt referred to as ‘snaking.’ What they are less acquainted with, though, is the sight of a snake hanging off completion of a club.
During the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow on Saturday, Rickie Fowler was on hand to supply a safe presentation.
Fowler was on the par-five seventh hole of his 3rd round at the PGA Tour occasion in Charlotte, when his tee shot went careening best towards the waters along the side of the fairway.
While looking for his ball, the American found a snake settled among some rocks. North Carolina is home to a variety of snake types, a number of which populate the waters of the Tar Heel state. Comments on the PGA’s Twitter post fluctuated on what types of snake Fowler managed, however it is believed to be a northern watersnake, a nonvenomous types belonging to North America.
Angling his wedge, Fowler carefully hooked the snake to raise it out from in between a space in the rocks prior to it wriggled away. The reality that the 34-year-old is a veteran partner with Puma-Cobra made it a fitting partnership.
He ultimately took a charge drop however handled to save par, carding a three-under 68 prior to duplicating ball game on Sunday to end up connected for 14th at eight-under general, 11 shots behind champ Wyndham Clark.
It lifts him 3 locations to world No. 50 ahead of the PGA Championship later on at Oak Hill this month, where he will once again go after a very first profession significant after 3 runner-up surfaces.
Fowler will be intending to prevent the fate that befell Richard Brand at last year’s occasion. The English golf player’s 2nd round was hindered when a squirrel raced onto the green to stop his ball and roll it around prior to scuttling away.
To rub salt into the injuries, Bland was not permitted to move his ball or replay his shot under United States Golf Association judgments.
Snakes and squirrels have actually continued golf’s ever growing story of animal encounters, with dogs, deer, and alligators all penning chapters in recent years.
