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Yahoo
15-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Snakes & turtles, oh my! Animals making presence known at PGA Championship
Shaun Micheel watches his approach shot the on the first fairway during the 2024 PGA Championship golf tournament. Friday at the 2025 PGA Championship in Charlotte, NC, Micheel's encounter with a snake during his second round is being widely shared on social media. Shaun Micheel thought his ball was getting eaten — at best, just chomped up like a Tic Tac — which would have made for quite a ruling. One could imagine the scene: A rules official walking up, asking what's the matter, and Micheel having to explain that a snake slithered across the fairway and gobbled up his golf ball. Friday, at the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow, Micheel hit a 182-yard layup to the right side of the 10th fairway and, well, something got to Micheel's ball before he did — a long black snake, twisting through the grass. 'I don't know what it was? A king snake?' Micheel said. 'My ball was in the place he wanted to be. We had a guy come over and kind of shoo him away, but the snake was in no hurry.' Advertisement Micheel — who won the 2003 PGA Championship, earning a lifetime exemption into the tournament — was playing this week with his son, Dade, as his caddie. Dade was a few months from being born when his dad lifted the Wanamaker Trophy, but is now inside the ropes. He was walking just behind his dad on the 10th fairway when they saw the snake. Micheel waved his glove at the reptile and stepped back. Then a tournament employee walked over. 'He kicked it and then the thing turned around,' Dade said, still a little perplexed the employee was that comfortable. 'It was a decent-sized snake.' It came in a week when animals have been a part of the story at Quail Hollow. Especially for Micheel. Thursday, his group was halted for a little while on the 14th hole because a turtle had damaged a bunker and the grounds crew needed a minute to rake it back to perfection. Advertisement 'They're big,' Micheel said of the turtles. On the same hole, Ryan Gerard hit a chip that rolled over the green and was halted because of a turtle. Was it the same turtle? Maybe. If so, he's a star. 'It was a Mother Nature week,' Micheel said. What Micheel was quick to point out about his wildlife encounter was the good fortune that followed. When the snake was whisked away ('It kind of just went off into the rough,' Micheel said. 'It's probably out there somewhere.') he hit his 144-yard approach shot to inside 12 feet and sank the birdie putt. Then he made a birdie on No. 11 — his final two red numbers in a tournament where he finished 8-over and missed the cut. Advertisement 'There was a guy following me,' Micheel said, 'and he goes, 'Man, you need that snake on every hole.' And I said, 'Well, bring him along.'' The clip of his turtle encounter was a hit on social media. Outside the clubhouse after the round, Dade pulled out his phone, went to X and watched the video with his dad. 'That's hilarious,' Dade said. 'That is so funny.' 'I've got that.' Micheel added.
Yahoo
14-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Watch: Patrick Reed holes out for albatross, only fourth in history of U.S. Open
Patrick Reed did something Thursday that only three others have ever done in the history of the U.S. Open. Playing his fourth hole during the opening round of the 2025 U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club, Reed hit a 3-wood from 286 yards on the par-5 second hole. His ball landed at the front of the green and took a couple of hops before releasing, and it never left the cup. The ball rolled into the hole, and voila, it was an albatross for Reed. The other three golfers to accomplish the feat are Nick Watney at Olympic Club in 2012, Shaun Micheel at Pebble Beach in 2010 and T.C. Chen at Oakland Hills in 1985. Advertisement The big bird moved Reed from 1 over to 2 under in the first round and to T-5 on the leaderboard. This article originally appeared on Golfweek: U.S. Open 2025: Patrick Reed holes out for albatross from 286 yards
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Watch as volunteer gets a little too close to massive snake at PGA Championship
Watch as volunteer gets a little close to massive snake at PGA Championship Turtles on Thursday, snakes on Friday. Play on the 10th hole of Quail Hollow at the PGA Championship was briefly stopped during the second round as a snake slithered across the fairway. The reptile slithered near 2003 PGA Champ Shaun Micheel, who quickly hopped backwards to let it pass. Advertisement A PGA Championship volunteer then stepped up to help nudge the snake into the rough and away from Micheel's ball. 'I wouldn't mess with that fella,' analyst and former Masters champ Trevor Immelman said on the ESPN broadcast. The volunteer got a little too aggressive at one point, poking it in the midsection to try and hurry it up. The snake quickly snapped its attention to the volunteer. 'That's what you got to avoid. … Now, he's riled up,' another announcer said. A snake at the 10th hole of Quail Hollow on May 16, 2025. SportsCenter/X The snake seemed to move into the rough of the Charlotte-area course before ESPN returned to the golf portion of their coverage. Micheel was unfazed by the incident, knocking his shot to 11 feet and then pouring in the birdie putt. Advertisement The 56-year-old was just outside the cut line as he moved through his second round. A volunteer trifles with a snake at the PGA Championship. X/SportsCenter 'They'd have to take it to the next county over for me to continue playing,' one commenter wrote on X. During the opening round Thursday, turtles had emerged from a nearby lake and settled into a bunker that forced play to be halted for repairs.
7NEWS
17-05-2025
- Sport
- 7NEWS
Former champion Shaun Micheel has run in with snake at US PGA
Former champion Shaun Micheel has shrugged off an unwelcome encounter with a snake on day two of the 107th US PGA Championship at Quail Hollow. Micheel, who lifted the Wanamaker Trophy in 2003, was pacing off the distance of his third shot on the 10th hole when he came across a snake crossing the fairway on the par five. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Snake interrupts play during US PGA Championship at Quail Hollow. Micheel appeared to be terrified as the snake slithered to him. He was happy to give it - believed to be a non-venomous eastern kingsnake - a wide berth before a tournament volunteer stepped in and used his foot to help usher the reptile out of the way and into the rough. But in doing so he seemed to agitate the snake. ESPN commentator and former Masters champion Trevor Immelman said: 'I wouldn't mess with that fella.' While another commentator said: 'That's what you got to avoid. Now we've got a problem. Now, he's riled up. 'I need him to take a bite of the ball.' After hitting his third shot to 12 feet, Micheel converted the birdie putt and also picked up another shot on the 11th as he battled to make the halfway cut which he missed in the US PGA for the first time since 2011. The 56-year-old won his sole major title at Oak Hill in 2003, beating Chad Campbell by two shots after a birdie on the 72nd hole. He also finished second in the same event at Medinah in 2006, five shots behind Tiger Woods. The snake issue followed an incident with a snapping turtle that appeared in a sand trap near the 14th as Ryan Gerard approached his ball.
Times
17-05-2025
- Sport
- Times
Matt Fitzpatrick holds nerve to close gap on leader Jhonattan Vegas
It was clear that this was going to be a testing day when a large king snake slithered across the fairway towards the ball of the former US PGA champion Shaun Micheel. A rules official gave it an unwise kick. Elsewhere some players continued to gripe about mud balls. The Venezuelan leader held on; fear and loathing and class Vegas. Jhonattan Vegas, a 40-year-old from the oil city of Maturin, continued to set the pace at eight under after a round of 70, but there was lots of back and forth below him. Matt Fitzpatrick wrestled his 2022 form back from a year of toil and finished just two behind, while Rory McIlroy rallied to make the weekend. As per tradition, it was dramatic. On
