Some Australian golfers were forced to step aside and allow a stampede of kangaroos to run down their fairway, through sand traps and over the green in an encounter that seemed to last forever.
“Look at this,” Stephen Roche said as he began filming the amazing sight. “It’s a stampede. It is a fair dinkum stampede.”
The unusual interruption occurred Monday on the fourth hole of the St John course at the Heritage Golf and Country Club northeast of Melbourne. Roche posted video of the encounter on X.
Was this yesterday? If so, I was on the tee filming it from the other angle! Felt like it went forever. pic.twitter.com/m9WOBprSvl
— Michael McCarthy (@thehumanzeee) March 7, 2024
Michael McCarthy shot video of the same encounter from a different angle, stating on X, “Felt like it went forever.”
Sure, kangaroos are common on Australian golf courses, but in these numbers?
“We have kangaroos on our two courses at Heritage Golf and Country Club,” Roche wrote on X. “But I’ve never seen this before.”
Someone asked if the kangaroos were tough on the greens. Roche replied, “Surprisingly no. Soft-footed animal. The only sign of them is footprints in bunkers.”
