JACKSON, Miss. –Vince Whaley stepped into the water to play a shot and a 6-foot alligator was watching carefully. He nonetheless turned his again on the gator and saved par.

Whaley figures the alligator was about 20 toes away within the water when he performed his shot from the financial institution on the par-5 eleventh gap Sunday within the Sanderson Farms Championship.

He was one shot out of the lead on the time, and he was conscious of the gator with its full head above water and eyeing him.

“Nicely, fortunately, my again was to him so I might deal with the shot for a second,” Whaley mentioned, including he had “a whole lot of belief” in his caddie monitoring the state of affairs.

The gator by no means moved. Whaley splashed out wanting the placing floor and received up-and-down for par. He completed with a 67 and tied for third.

And the plan if the gator had moved?

“The plan was to get the hell out of the water,” he mentioned.