A golf course in Townsville is sporting a novel hazard for extremely game club-swingers: a 3.5 metre saltwater crocodile that’s come to be known as ‘Willow’.
Patrons of the Willows Golf Club have reportedly been spotting the croc several times a day since early December, with the club confirming that he’d moved in for good within the last week.
After the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (EHP) confirmed that keeping a man-eater on the course, however much he enjoyed watching a few rounds, was indeed a bad idea, staff at the club contacted professionals to relocate Willow. The floating trap in the golf course lake has yet to do the trick, despite the cheeky lizard getting everyone’s hopes up yesterday arvo.
“We did have a false alarm earlier in the day when we thought we had him, but he popped his head up about 5m away,” said Willows staff member Josh Tindale.
Remarkably, everyone at the club seems unperturbed by sharing their recreational green with a prehistoric log that wants to eat them, with Tindale telling the Townsville Bulletin that “he poses no immediate threat. When people get within cooee of him, he ducks back into the lake and cruises over to the other side and parks himself in there.”
In the meantime, Willow is doing a top job of devouring the course’s wildlife, keeping the caddies on their toes, and practising his drive in the dead of night. Show me where in the rulebook it says a crocodile CAN’T play!
Source: Townsville Bulletin.
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