Watch as volunteer gets a little too close to massive snake at PGA Championship

Turtles on Thursday, snakes on Friday.Play on the 10th hole of Quail Hollow at the PGA Championship was briefly stopped during the second round as a snake slithered across the fairway.The reptile slithered near 2003 PGA Champ Shaun Micheel, who quickly hopped backwards to let it pass.A PGA Championship volunteer then stepped up to help nudge the snake into the rough and away from Micheel’s ball.“I wouldn’t mess with that fella,” analyst and former Masters champ Trevor Immelman said on the ESPN broadcast.The volunteer got a little too aggressive at one point, poking it in the midsection to try and hurry it up.The snake quickly snapped its attention to the volunteer.“That’s what you got to avoid.

… Now, he’s riled up,” another announcer said.The snake seemed to move into the rough of the Charlotte-area course before ESPN returned to the golf portion of their coverage.Micheel was unfazed by the incident, knocking his shot to 11 feet and then pouring in the birdie putt.The 56-year-old was just outside the cut line as he moved through his second round.“They’d have to take it to the next county over for me to continue playing,” one commenter wrote on X.During the opening round Thursday, turtles had emerged from a nearby lake and settled into a bunker that forced play to be halted for repairs....