That seems to be a fairly common thing in parts of Florida. A superintendent that I once worked with was an avid Florida golfer, and brought pictures of one of his vacations where he was making a putt on the green, and there was a gator about ten feet from him; two caddies with sand rakes were between him and the gator. When he retired - to Florida, of course - we bought a cheap but fancy putter and re-shaped the head and made a sectional handle for it so that when it was all put together, he would have a 24 foot long putter. He sent us pictures of him using it - yeah, with a gator on the green with him.