Staying calm on the golf course and maintaining your composure can help you play better, but we may need to check Billy Horschel’s pulse because no PGA Tour star should be this relaxed on the course.
While he was playing the eighth hole Thursday morning during the Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches, a 5- to 6-foot alligator started to walk across the fairway near the eighth green, prompting Horschel, a native Floridian, to jog up to the reptile while holding a wedge. The former University of Florida star then bent down, extended the club in front of himself, and proceeded to push the alligator, which turned and ran back into a nearby pond.
The crowd standing behind the ropes cheered as Horschel jogged away from the pond, and impressively, he wound up making an 11-foot putt on the eighth hole for a birdie.
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