{"id":272589,"date":"2026-05-15T18:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/272589\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T18:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:41:10","slug":"massive-alligator-halts-play-at-st-petersburg-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/272589\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Alligator Halts Play at St Petersburg Golf Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A massive alligator made a special appearance at a Florida golf course in early May, with players pausing to marvel at its size and gait.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This footage captured by Tyler Carpenter shows the large gator slowly waddling across a golf course in St Petersburg, Florida, on Monday, May 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cAs I was taking my son to the chipping green, I noticed some other golfers with their phones out rather than playing hole seven,\u201d Carpenter said.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Carpenter said that the gator was lying on the green but began walking in his direction when he started recording.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThat is a big boy,\u201d Carpenter could be heard saying. Credit: Tyler Carpenter via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A massive alligator made a special appearance at a Florida golf course in early May, with players pausing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[28,1177,116603,202,204,203,199,201,200,116602],"class_list":["post-272589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-florida","tag-golf-course","tag-special-appearance","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tyler-carpenter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}