A junior golfer was given the fright of her life after she found her ball had landed on a 6-foot boa constrictor on a U.K. golf course. The 13-year-old girl had been playing a round at Blackwell Grange Golf Club in Darlington when she came across the curled-up snake on Saturday, June 13.
Resident PGA pro Aaron Cox had been leading the group of young golfers around the course when they came across the surprise hazard on the 353-yard hole. Boa constrictors are nonvenomous and kill their prey by strangling or constricting them until they suffocate, before swallowing them whole.
The young golfer’s dad, David, said: “She messaged me a picture on WhatsApp. It was a picture of the snake and I thought at first it was AI-generated and she was pulling my leg.” Cox, 40, who is from Australia but now lives in Darlington, County Durham, said: “I’ve seen bigger back in Oz so I wasn’t too bothered by it — but most of the other golfers were.”
Cox called his boss, head pro Peter Raine, and helped to coax the large snake safely into a cardboard box after deciding it would be too heavy to pick up with golf clubs. The snake was handed into Coast to Coast Exotics, which has since issued an appeal on social media to help find its owner.
Original reporting: KTBS 3 (Shreveport) — read the source article.
