StrokerAce Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 Crazy story from Connecticut recently.... https://www.theday.com/local-news/20190423/new-london-man-recounts-attack-by-rabid-bobcat Quote Mike looked up when John yelled to him to watch out. He saw an animal coming toward him, and turned away. Mike later learned that a rabid bobcat had jumped on his back, biting his left arm and shoulder while clawing the top of his head. What happened is still a blur to Mike, but recounting the attack over coffee on Tuesday, he still could hear its low, guttural growl. He still could smell it — faintly like a skunk. John was trying to hit the bobcat with his iron, though he was unsure if he did, while trying to avoid hitting Mike. "It was surreal," Fred said. "You see what was taking place, going down, and you're saying, 'That can't possibly be whatever it was on top of Mike.'" Mike and the cat tumbled down the hill and, though Mike doesn't know why, the bobcat finally let go of him. His friends estimate the bobcat was on him for two or three minutes. Have you ever been attacked by an animal on a golf course? I think the worst I experienced was a goose but he realized I was bigger and carrying a metal rod so he changed his mind... MattF, MaxEntropy, M. Parsons and 1 other 4 Quote Driver- Cobra Aerojet LS Woods- Cobra LTD 3w 15*, 5W 19*, F9 24* Irons- XXIO X (6-A) Wedges- Callaway Jaws Raw (54/58) Putter- Bettinardi BB56 Ball- Maxfli Tour X Buggy- Motocaddy M7 GPS Remote Electric Caddy Bag- Motocaddy Dry-Series Proudly testing for 2024: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxEntropy Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 6 minutes ago, GolfSpy Stroker said: Crazy story from Connecticut recently.... https://www.theday.com/local-news/20190423/new-london-man-recounts-attack-by-rabid-bobcat Have you ever been attacked by an animal on a golf course? I think the worst I experienced was a goose but he realized I was bigger and carrying a metal rod so he changed his mind... Just geese. The course I played my league on 20 years ago has tons of geese. The mommas are super defensive when chicks are around. There were a couple holes you had to be carrying a club to keep them away. tony@CIC and StrokerAce 2 Quote Driver: Epic Speed 9* (set -1) MMT 70X 3W: Tour B JGR Recoil 760ES 3H, 4H: Tour B JGR 19*, 23* Recoil 780ES 4-AW: Tour B JGR HF2 Modus3 Tour 105 SW: RTX Zipcore Black Satin 54* LW: TAIII Black 58* Putter: Scottsdale TR Senita Bag: BigMax Dri Active Lite Ball: TP5x or AVX (yellow) Pushcart: BigMax iQ+ Testing Complete, Final Review Posted: Sub70 TAIII Forged Wedges Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M. Parsons Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 I've never been attacked, but my snacks and candy have been snagged by black crows while I was away from the golf cart. I did get attacked by my own ball once, but that's a long story and scars remain, both externally and internally. tony@CIC, JohnSmalls, MaxEntropy and 1 other 3 1 Quote In my BR-D4 6-way King F9 set to 9*, Tour length Hzrdus Smoke Black 6.0 S-flex, with GolfPride MCC +4 mid-size 3W - 13*, UST Mamiya 65 Gold S-flex, with GolfPride Tour Wrap 2G SIM UDI 2-iron - 18*, Mitsubishi Diamana Thump 100 X-flex, with GolfPride MCC Align ZX5 4-5 & ZX7 6-PW, Modus3 120 Tour S-flex, +1/2", with GolfPride Tour Wrap 2G - SM8 Tour Chrome, 50.08F - 54.10S - 58.12D, DG Wedge Flex, with GolfPride Tour Wrap 2G Custom Fit 35" ER6 Red at 68 degree lie angle and 4 degrees of loft MTB-X NX7 Pro Slope Tracked by #WPS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chisag Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 ... I have been dive bombed by a momma red winged blackbird protecting their nest several times. Crazy those things actually make contact with your hair. I can't imagine attacking an elephant that is twice the normal size but that must be what it is like fo those momma blackbirds. ... I saw a Bobcat last week sitting next to the cart path, then sauntering over to a tree and started grooming himself in the shade. I could not imagine that cat coming at me! StrokerAce, MaxEntropy, tony@CIC and 1 other 4 Quote Driver: Qi10 10.5* ... Ventus Red Velocore 5R Fairway: Qi10 5 wood ... Kai'li Blue 60R Hybrids: 430 Hybrid 22*... Diamana LTD 65r DHy #4 ... Steelfiber 780Hy Irons: '23 T200 5-Pw ... Steelfiber i95r Wedges: Vokey 50*/54*/58* ... Steelfiber i95r Putter: Sport-60 33" Ball: Maxfli/ Maxfli Tour/TP5x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrokerAce Posted April 25, 2019 Author Share Posted April 25, 2019 I take it back! a couple years ago I was playing in Rhode Island and we we're apparently near someone who had some "free range" chickens....I say free range because they were roaming around on the course but I think they got out of the yard. I was playing with some city boys who grew up in Providence and my grandpa had a chicken farm with 880,000 chickens. These 3 come sauntering over to check out our cart and one guy had some mixed nuts. You should have seen these city boys take off running! You would have thought they were ferocious alligators. Well, they jumped into the cart and had a tasty snack with the mixed nuts. I shooed them away so the guys could play their shots and they jumped into the cart QUICK and blitzed out of there. The tee box for the next hole was by the green we just finished and of course those chickens decide to come over and see if we had any more snacks for them. I whooshed them away and they went on back their merry way. Beautiful birds - Rhode Island Reds.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island_Red sirchunksalot, tony@CIC, MaxEntropy and 2 others 5 Quote Driver- Cobra Aerojet LS Woods- Cobra LTD 3w 15*, 5W 19*, F9 24* Irons- XXIO X (6-A) Wedges- Callaway Jaws Raw (54/58) Putter- Bettinardi BB56 Ball- Maxfli Tour X Buggy- Motocaddy M7 GPS Remote Electric Caddy Bag- Motocaddy Dry-Series Proudly testing for 2024: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny B Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 We had two cougar sightings yesterday on a popular hiking trail on Badger Mountain on the edge of town. My course Columbia Point GC is an Audobon International property which means all birds are protected; can't harass them. Since we have several ponds, we have lots of geese and they have babies here every year. My nickname for the course is Goose Poop Point. I would like the course better if there were no geese. JohnSmalls, StrokerAce and MaxEntropy 3 Quote “We don’t stop playing the game because we get old; we get old because we stop playing the game.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnSmalls Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 31 minutes ago, GolfSpy Stroker said: Beautiful (delicious) birds There, I fixed it for you! tony@CIC, Kenny B and sirchunksalot 2 1 Quote Gameday Vessel Sunday 2.0/ Ogio Silencer Dynapwr Carbon | Hzrdus Smoke Black Mavrik 3w | Evenflow Riptide FG Tour F5 Hybrid(20,23) | MCA Fubuki Staff Model CB 5-PW | DG 120 Vokey SM7 (50, 54, 58) | DG 120 Studio Stock 15 -ProV1x (left dash) Romans 10:9 Classic Bag Jones Collegiate Clemson Stand Bag Eye 2 Laminate 1973 Staff Dynapower 4-PW Anser DUO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixcat Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 In a previous life, I helped the local high school golf program. I was playing one afternoon with some of the kids on the team. One kid was trying to get his ball out of a marshy area without much luck. My first step into the uncut fescue landed directly on top of a snake. I jumped and turned to run. The snake wrapped its tail around my ankle and I drug it 20 feet into the fairway. Somehow, I didn't get bit which is surprising given how aggressive Northern Water Snakes tend to be. StrokerAce, JohnSmalls and tony@CIC 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 I thought this was going to about someone being attacked by a guy with an SLDR-C chisag, JohnSmalls, russtopherb and 3 others 2 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golfertrb Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 I haven't been attacked by anything but many years ago I had a run-in with a flock of little egrets. I was living in Florida at the time and there was a nice little golf course down the street from my house in Palmetto. I was on a par 5 hitting my second shot from around 235 or so and in those days I played 1-PW of MP 14's so I hit my 1 iron. I absolutely ripped it and the egrets were in the middle of the fairway about 150 yards ahead of me and just as the ball was flying over them, the flock took off and I hit one of those birds right in the head. The bird dropped dead in the fairway. I felt terrible for killing the bird but I did manage to make birdie :)Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk JohnSmalls 1 Quote Ping G400 LST 8.5* Graphite Design DI 6 stiff 45" Taylormade RBZ Proto 14.5* Oban Kiyoshi 85 04 42.5" Adams 4555 19* Matrix Ozik Altus 80 S/X 42" Ping G410 Crossover 2 Project X Even Flow Blue 85 6.0 40" Ping i500 4-8 Modus 105 Stiff Ping Blueprint 9-P Modus 105 Stiff Fourteen RM-12 53* and 58* Tour Issue Black Onyx s400 Odyssey Tour Black Series 9 35" Flatso 1.0 Srixon Z Star XV 2018 Ping Hoofer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yungkory Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 14 hours ago, GolfSpy Stroker said: Crazy story from Connecticut recently.... https://www.theday.com/local-news/20190423/new-london-man-recounts-attack-by-rabid-bobcat Have you ever been attacked by an animal on a golf course? I think the worst I experienced was a goose but he realized I was bigger and carrying a metal rod so he changed his mind... Not attacked, but @Vincemoaloka can attest that I was chased around the cart by a wild boar. Mama and her baby came rushing down the hill towards us. Baby couldn't stop and ended up flying into the bushes. Mama stopped to try and rob me of my hand roll sushi. JohnSmalls, tony@CIC and MaxEntropy 3 Quote Driver: Rogue ST Max LS Tensei AV Blue S 3w/5w: TSi2 Tensei AV Raw Blue S 4h: CLK 22* Hybrid Tensei CK Pro Blue 80HY S Irons 5-PW: 223 Steelfiber PR 95 S Wedges: RTX Zipcore Tour Rack 50, 54, 58 Steelfiber PR 105 Putter: LAB Link.1 Ball: Z-Star Diamond Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jbmullin Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 Never attacked but the course I play has a fox that roams occasionally, last year while setting up to putt, it was some what stalking us , getting closer and then stole one of the balls off the green and ran off. Sent from my SM-N960W using MyGolfSpy mobile app Quote DRIVER - Ping G425 SFT Driver Tensei AV 55 Orange Reg Flex Woods - Ping G425 7 wood Tensei AV 65 Orange Reg Flex Irons - Cobra Rad Speed 1 Length UST Recoil 780 Smacwrap Graphite Reg Flex WEDGES- Callaway jaws 52/56/60 PUTTER- Taylormade FCG spider putter 34" BALL- Pro V1x or Tp5X -- trying to figure this one out. Footjoy Tour S golf shoe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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