STEVENSVILLE — A young male grizzly bear was a captured and relocated from the Whitetail Golf Course north of Stevensville Saturday.
The golf course’s pro, Jason Lehtola, said the first indication that something was amiss at Whitetail came after they saw a broken flag stick on one of the greens. The next morning they found two more snapped off at their base.
“We thought it was probably a vandal at first,” Lehtola said. “And then we saw some tracks in a bunker and some scat piles. I couldn’t tell that it was a grizzly, though, at that point.”
The decision that something needed to be done about the flagpole snapper came last Wednesday when they found another flag stick broken on the seventh green — and this time, the bear had dug a large hole in the manicured grass.
A biologist would later say the bear was after worms.
Well, the golf course belonged to them first!
ReplyDeleteplus now it has edibles walking around with sticks!
DeleteLooks like the Griz was from the Tommy Bolt school of golf. Must have bogied those holes with the broken flags.
ReplyDeleteWhat was that line from Star Wars.....'let the wookie win' might apply to golf with large bears too....
DeleteNot every golf course has a grizzly bear visit. It makes life interesting when these sorts of things happen.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how one counts an encounter on the score sheet, do you get a extra stroke?
DeleteGolf is a real sport, after all. They've really raised the risk factor from the days when water hazards were the worst thing to watch out for.
ReplyDeleteHarry.....I recently visited your site. Haven't figured you out yet. Are your really a right wing nut? If so, this might not be the place for you. Otherwise, if it's just irony/comedy of sorts, fine.
DeleteYeah, I was thinking of one tournament in Florida, most likely, where one brave golfer scared a gator back into a lake.
ReplyDeleteI think running into a gator and a griz is a toss-up.
DeleteHe wanted a taste of the good life. At least he wasn't found at the 19th hole drinking all the beer.
ReplyDeleteGood one!
DeleteThey should charge extra for the thrill and the hazard :)
ReplyDeleteXO
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And this one, at 300lbs, is a young small grizzly.
DeleteWow. But I hate that we've taken so much of their habitat.
ReplyDeleteGiven that Hamilton's view of the US won over Jefferson's, it was inevitable.
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