About a month back, a fairly small gator, guessing from head size about 3-4 feet, moved from the nearby pond into a small ditch that was holding water maybe a foot deep. The ditch runs across hole #7, with limbs right above it and trees on both sides. Very common to hit the limbs and drop into or near the ditch. I did, and retrieving my disc, not seeing him, the gator was less than 2 feet from me, and made a huge splashing noise as he disappeared. Scared the crap out of me! Every time I played there, I observed him 'living' in the ditch, for about two weeks, when the water was drying up considerably, and I assume he moved through the nearby underground drainage pipe back into the pond. Other than the scare that first time, I rather enjoyed observing him and checking to see was he still in the ditch. During his time in the ditch, he was always in the exact same spot, and always with his head above the water but never his body, always in the exact same position. Those familiar with gators in the wild know, when you observe them, they rarely move - usually so still you would think they are a statue - but one other time I got too close, retrieving a disc, and he bolted into the nearby drainage pipe (but that time, he was back in his usual position when I played the next day). I played a bit extra during those two weeks, trading in practice field work for rounds of DG, just to keep tabs on my buddy.