{"id":45521,"date":"2025-10-07T05:11:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/whaley-challenges-alligator-and-saves-par-in-golf-tournament\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T05:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:11:49","slug":"whaley-challenges-alligator-and-saves-par-in-golf-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/whaley-challenges-alligator-and-saves-par-in-golf-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Whaley challenges alligator and saves par in golf tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"In an unexpected turn during the Sanderson Farms Championship, golfer Vince Whaley encountered an unusual spectator: a six-foot alligator.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Close Encounter in the Field<\/h2>\n\n\nWhaley, while preparing to execute a shot from the edge of the 11th hole, a par 5, had to deal with the presence of the reptile, which was watching him closely.\n\nThe golfer estimated that the alligator was about 20 feet away in the water.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?id=1974937259829797184\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\nAt that moment, Whaley was one stroke off the lead. Despite the situation, he managed to focus on his shot.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Well, fortunately, I turned my back so I could focus on the shot for a second,&#8221; Whaley commented, adding that he had &#8220;a lot of confidence&#8221; in his caddie, who was monitoring the situation.<\/p><cite>Vince Whaley<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe caiman remained still. Whaley managed to get the ball out of the water and, with a good approach, got the par. He finished the day with a card of 67 strokes, tying for third place.\n\nWhat was the plan if the caiman had moved?\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;The plan was to run out of the water,&#8221; he replied.<\/p><cite>Vince Whaley<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unexpected turn during the Sanderson Farms Championship, golfer Vince Whaley encountered an unusual spectator: a six-foot alligator. A Close Encounter in the Field Whaley, while preparing to execute a shot from the edge of the 11th hole, a par 5, had to deal with the presence of the reptile, which was watching him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[9506,163,9507,9508],"class_list":{"0":"post-45521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-alligator","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-pair","11":"tag-vince-whaley"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}