Australia’s wildlife can be pretty scary sometimes, as some golfers in Sydney found out when they found a poisonous snake waiting for them.
Players at The Coast Golf and Recreation Club on the southern coast of Sydney were shocked to find a red-bellied black snake hiding in the hole on the second green.
The snakes are poisonous, and their bites account for 16% of all snake bites. However, they usually leave people alone, and no one has died from a bite in Australia.
Even so, when golfers looked at the hole during their round, they were terrified by what they saw.
A golf club representative said that the snake was looking for a place to get out of the hot summer sun, and that it eventually left on its own.
“When it’s this hot, everyone needs a break from the heat, even the animals,” they said.
“The 4ft red belly black stayed for a while and watched a few groups go by before moving on.”
Everyone was happy to take the two putts they were given and move on.
Online, a lot of people talked about the video of the poisonous snake making itself at home.
“This is why I live in a cold place. I don’t mind golf simulators in the winter. One said, “I’d rather finish my round than end up in the hospital or on the ground.”
“Finally a good reason to be late!” wrote someone else.
“I bet he’s already eaten a golf ball! …thought it was an egg?’ asked someone else.
It is not the first time a snake has made an unwelcome appearance on an Aussie golf course.
Comedian Andy Lee recently encountered a ‘huge’ tiger snake in a bunker at the Barnbougle Lost Farms Golf Course in Tasmania while playing a round of golf with friends.
‘People say bunker shots are daunting… have they tried playing them in Australia,’ he captioned his video.
In 2016, golfers in Cairns were shocked to see a four-meter python on the Paradise Palms golf course. This may have been the scariest snake encounter ever.
Even scarier was the fact that the giant reptile was eating a local wallaby for lunch.
It stopped play on the golf course for about 30 minutes while it ate the whole animal on the fairway, which shocked golfers who wanted to play.
The general manager of Paradise Palms, Declan McCollam, said that the golfers might have been surprised, but the local pythons were not usually dangerous to people.
“The snake is not dangerous to people,” Mr. McCollam said. “When it was done digesting the wallaby, it went back into the bush.”
He said, “The wildlife on Paradise Palms has always been a draw for golfers, and it’s clear that it’s doing well and thriving.”
