You've heard of pool sharks,
but golf sharks are an entirely different matter.
Workers at the San Juan Hills
golf course in San Juan Capistrano, Calif., were shocked on Monday when they
came across a live shark flipping and flapping around the 12th hole tee.
"Our marshalls were doing
their rounds and came across the fish writhing on the tee," Melissa
McCormack, director of club operations, told The Huffington Post. "It was
about two feet long so he put in the back of the golf cart."
Back at the clubhouse, the
employees quickly figured out it was a shark, most likely a leopard shark, which are commonly
found in bay environments and shallow waters along the West Coast, from as far
south as Mazatlan, Mexico northward to Oregon, according to the Capistrano
Dispatch newspaper.
As for how it got to the
course, McCormack thinks it was meant to be a meal for some predatory bird.
"We're obviously not
experts, but there were puncture marks and blood that is consistent with what
we would expect those markings to look like," she said.
The course is more than a mile
from the nearest ocean and McCormack and crew realized the shark needed to get
back there in order to live, NBCSanDiego.com reported.
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