That’s One Foxy Golfer
Salinas California is home to the world’s foxiest golfers. Well, not exactly golfers, more like golfball lovers. The Salinas Twin Creeks Golf Course is home to a family of ball stealing foxes who reside on the eighth hole. The Salinas Californian is there:
The family lives somewhere between the eighth green and the fifth hole fairway. The mother and kits occasionally mingle with golfers in the morning and early evening. That’s also when the playful foxes are most likely to run onto the green where a ball has fallen, snatch it and run away.
And what’s a golfer to do when a fox has swiped his ball? Take another shot of course:
Twin Creeks course professional Colleen Henry, its resident golf expert, said a player whose golf ball gets intercepted by fox gets no penalty for taking another stroke or playing with a new ball.
Playful little critters. I want to check out this course just to see the foxes. This isn’t the first time we’ve reported on animals with a penchant for play. Read all about these little robber raccoons.
May 30th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
What a great post. Once I played a pitch in putt with my brother and he hit his tee shot 3 feet from the pin but as I went to tee off, a fox ran on the green and stole his ball. not sure what the official rules on that would be. Anyhow, great blog and keep up the good work.