Golf Rules for alligator hazards?

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Golfing in Florida or in Louisiana often means there are alligator hazards.

Even Sports Show hosts are not entirely sure of the rulings around alligator hazards. 

The incident in the video above is from last August, in 2020, but similar situations are not infrequent.  From today's news in Naples, Florida, an alligator again took someone's golf ball, but this wee beastie at least did not taunt the player by offering the ball back in its open jaws, as does the one in the video above.  

From Yahoo!Sports:

“As I got close I saw that it was lying adjacent to the alligator’s head,” Goldstein said via email. “So I grabbed my phone for a picture, but before I could take one he smiled —that’s my story and I’m sticking to it — and picked it up in his mouth.

“That’s when I switched to video, thankfully. My two playing partners and I laughed like hell. I told them I wasn’t sure of the rules, but that I was taking a free drop regardless!”

After several seconds with the ball in its mouth, the small alligator turned and went into the pond.  More here

Some golfers try to retrieve their ball. One of them was in Florida last December, as seen at this link.

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