Jackson, Miss. – Vince Whaley entered the water to play a shot and a 6 -foot alligator looked closely. He always turned his back on the Gator and spared by.
Whaley appears that the alligator was about 20 feet in the water when he played his bank shot on the 11th hole per-5 on Sunday in the Sanderson Farms championship.
Play it as it is 🐊
Vince Whaley played this stroke of the lake … a few meters from a gator @Sanderson_champ! pic.twitter.com/ik3nasediz
– PGA Tour (@pgatour) October 5, 2025
He was a shot at the time, and he was aware of the Gator with his full head above the water and looked at him.
“Well, fortunately, my back was for him so that I could focus on shooting for a second,” said Whaley, adding that he had “a lot of confidence” in his caddy on the surveillance of the situation.
The Gator has never moved. Whaley splashed the putting surface and overturned for the peer. He finished with a 67 and equaled the third.
And the plan if the gator had moved?
“The plan was to remove hell from water,” he said.
