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Golf isn't a sport one would associate with high risk situations. Unless of course990 Archives you're playing a round of 18 holes in sub-tropical Australia.

Golfer Robert Williamse's casual Saturday round turned a little Planet Earth, when he spotted a 4 metre (13 foot) python crushing the life out of a wallaby, in the middle of the green, according to The Cairns Post.

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Williamse told the newspaper that the python made relatively quick work of the lifeless marsupial, as bystanders watched on.

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“The python swallowed it and rolled into the creek, then snuck back into the bush. It must have gone for a rest for the next few days," Williamse said.

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The "circle of life" demo was a stark contrast to the meticulously-groomed greens of the Far North Queensland golf course.

What a perfectly legitimate and terrifying excuse to get out of playing golf.

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