By Torleif Sorenson on 3/11/15

In the last couple of days, an enormous alligator has taken up residence at Myakka Pines Golf Club in Englewood, Florida, near Sarasota and Bradenton. The photographs below were taken by club members Dick Huber and Bill Susie, and posted on the club's Facebook page. Since then, the photographs have gone viral, across the entire nation.

As far as we know, nobody at the club has given a name to this gigantic beast, so we at SkyGolf wish to call it "GatorZilla."




We at SkyGolf would be quite skittish is we saw this Brobdingnagian beast on any golf course. Frankly, we think "GatorZilla" belongs at Sarasota Jungle Gardens, instead.

We hereby offer a huge hat-tip to photographers Dick Huber and Bill Susie, who either used really long telephoto lenses, or shot these pictures from a U.S. Army armored personnel carrier.

Or, they were just crazy and insane enough to shoot these from a less-substantial vehicle and weren't afraid of being eaten alive.

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Images via Myakka Pines Golf Club