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Rickie Fowler Confronts Snake at Wells Fargo Championship

Fowler is not one to shy away from wildlife on the golf course.

Gabrielle Herzig

Rickie Fowler Confronts Snake at Wells Fargo Championship
Rickie Fowler Confronts Snake at Wells Fargo Championship /

Rickie Fowler is never one to shy away from wildlife on the golf course, and he proved that yet again at the Wells Fargo Championship this weekend in Charlotte, N.C.

Fowler, who sits T20 heading into the final round at Quail Hollow, hit his ball into a water hazard on Saturday, only to be greeted by a slithering surprise. 

While looking to retrieve his ball, Fowler attempted to lift a snake back onto the grass with his wedge. 

The video of the incident, which shows the snake twisting itself around Fowler’s club momentarily, is both mesmerizing and terrifying. The reptile didn’t make it back onto green grass, however, and instead slipped into the rock-lined penalty area. 

Back at the 2017 Zurich Classic, Fowler went viral for a much riskier animal run-in during a tournament round. The California native used a bunker rake to take on an alligator, nudging it back into the murky New Orleans lake.

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Gabrielle Herzig
GABRIELLE HERZIG

Gabrielle Herzig is a Breaking and Trending News writer for Sports Illustrated Golf. Previously, she worked as a Golf Digest Contributing Editor, an NBC Sports Digital Editorial Intern, and a Production Runner for FOX Sports at the site of the 2018 U.S. Open. Gabrielle graduated as a Politics Major from Pomona College in Claremont, California, where she was a four-year member and senior-year captain of the Pomona-Pitzer women’s golf team. In her junior year, Gabrielle studied abroad in Scotland for three months, where she explored the Home of Golf by joining the Edinburgh University Golf Club.

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