England’s Charley Hull was delighted with her 5-under-par 67 after the first day of the CME Tour Championship, but was more relieved to leave the course in one piece.
England’s Charley Hull was delighted with her 5-under-par 67 after the first day of the CME Tour Championship, but was more relieved to leave the course in one piece after the youngster, and her American playing partner Mo Martin, came face to face with a snake.
Just as Martin prepared to play her shot from a greenside bunker on the fifth hole, and with the ball’s position up against the steep face requiring her to play with her back to the face, the former British Open champion noticed something in the bunker’s riveting on top of the hazard.
“I see it, peripherally, and I’m thinking it’s a branch, but then I’m like, 'That’s a funny place for a branch,’ and then I get closer, and I’m like, 'That is not a branch,’” Martin told the Golf Channel.
Playing partner Hull knows only too well what a snake bite feels like after she was bitten by a snake as a child whilst playing at Woburn Golf Club. Martin had no intention of finding out and as the reptile grew increasingly angry by the rules officials attempts to move it, was permitted a free drop away from the danger.
The incident did not appear to affect the pair, with Hull placed in 2nd at the season-ending event in Naples, and Martin only two shots further back.
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