An alligator like the one pictured here was blamed for snatching a Florida golfer's ball out of the air. Creative Commons photo
"I shanked the ball to the right, and it was heading to the water," she told the Naples Daily News. "It was close to the gator's head. He saw it, jumped up and caught it."
The hungry gator's mistake earned Sadowsky a free drop.
"It saved me from a hazard penalty," she said.
She said the free drop unfortunately wasn't enough to win the tournament.
"We came close but were just out of the money," Sadowsky said.
Alligators in the Bonita Springs area have been known to display unusual behaviors in the past -- one of the reptiles was caught on video last June taking a rare swim in the ocean.
