A new hazard was inadvertently added at the Centennial Golf Course in Oregon. A 1. 5-acre fire burned between the sixth and seventh holes while golfers around it tried to drive the green and sink putts. "I was really playing well until this happened," joked Jim Pawlak of Berkeley, Calif. His golfing buddy, Steve Scholl, chimed in, "I was under par when that happened. "

A Tennessee man learned the hard way that alligators are a regular part of life of Florida. Bruce Burger, 50, did not think twice about reaching into a pond at Lake Venice Golf Club to fish for his golf ball. But when he reached into the water a one-eyed, 11-foot alligator latched onto his arm, and pulled him in.

Bruce Burger, 50, probably missed the "Beware of Alligators" sign when he tried to fish out his golf ball from a pond on the sixth hole at the Lake Venice Golf Club. The Tennessee man's neglect might have cost him his arm as a 10-foot, 11-inch single-eyed alligator in the pond latched on to his right forearm Monday afternoon and tried to pull him in water.

Accepting the challenge of a friend to pot 108 holes in the game of golf, Beatrice High School golf coach Dick Stuart, middle school teacher Ben Essam and golf pro Joel Brueggemann made a record of sorts by playing 110 holes, a bit more than the original goal. When their friend Jim Edwards said it was impossible to play six rounds of golf in one day, the trio decided to start at 5:45 a. m. and finished two more than six rounds of 18 holes at 9:15 p. m. The first few holes were literally played in the morning fog.

In a bid to get rid of the growing number of Canada geese in the city park and the nuisance caused by the birds' droppings, officials in Monterey, California have launched an annual campaign which will call on residents to coat the eggs with vegetable oil, suffocating the embryo inside. The campaign is a part of the 5-year-old federal order aimed at ending the nesting which causes damage and contaminates the parks and private land.