Golfer loses ball, then arm
Who ever knew golf could be such a dangerous sport? A man playing golf at Ocean Creek Golf Course in Hilton Head Island, S.C., had part of his arm bitten off by an alligator as he leaned over to pick up his ball from a pond.
James Wiencek, a 77-year-old from Ohio, was playing the 11th hole of the course and leaned down to pick up his ball when a 10-foot long alligator grabbed his arm, said Kate Hines, general manager of the Fripp Island Property Owners Association. The gator bit him and pulled the man into the pond and ripped off his arm in the struggle. His golf partners were able to free him.
“He was sitting close to the bank so we were going to try to put a noose basically, a snare cable over him and when we approached him and almost had it over his head, he went back under the water,” said David Corneliussen, the owner of the wildlife control company that caught the gator. “He surfaced again and we tried it again and then he moved out a little deeper, played a little cat and mouse for about 30 minutes and then we were able to get a snag on him on a rope with a hook and hook him. We brought him to the shore where we dispatched him, pulled him up and opened him up, removed the arm and EMS was standing by to take it.”
Wildlife workers killed the alligator and retrieved the arm in the hopes it might be reattached. Let’s hope they are successful.
According to the Florida Museum of Natural History, there have only been 9 alligator attacks in South Carolina in a 57-year period.
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