Welsh Golfer Makes the Cut at Amazon Golf Course
He was told. David Parry of Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales was told not to retrieve balls from the water traps on the Amazon Golf Course, Iquitos, Peru.
David, an avid golfer with a handicap of 7 did not heed the warnings. He tried to retrieve a ball from the water trap near to the 2nd green. He said, “I could see my ball lying in about 6″ of water and decided to lift it out rather than lose a stroke”.
Dave continued, “As I put my left hand in to grab the ball in an instant a pirahña came out of the shadows and bit off the tip of my little finger”. “It didn’t hurt at first but it did later, and as blood dripped into the water a whole shoal of the blighters appeared”.
The golfer was taken to the Regional Hospital in Iquitos where he was attended to by Dr Carlos Salazar. The doctor said, “The wound needed 3 stitches but it was a cleaner cut than I could have done with a scalpel, I’m sure his finger nail will grow back in time but a bit smaller.”
David Parry said later “I’m going to dine on this forever, what other golfer can claim to have lost a finger tip to a pirahña while playing golf?”
Mike Collis, the Course Manager said, “Mr Parry was very lucky. The fish could have easily taken the whole finger or more”. Mike continued, “We always, always tell golfers NOT to retrieve balls from the water traps unless they really are intent on feeding the local wildlife!”
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Good try Bill,
But Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
A photo will do !
Bill you really do have a fertile imagination lets have a bit of proof.
Hello Bill,
Great work with the Amazon Golf Course. I remember back in 1999 driving all round Iquitos to find some land for a driving range, cant believe a golf course exists in Amazonia. Now this claim of Dave Parry’s , I think you might have gone too far this time. if its true lets see some photographic evidence.
John Hughes,
Rugby, England
Oh, I feel sorry for Mr. Parry. Hope this will be a lesson to learn for all golfers. My sincerest “get well soon, Sir” to Mr. Parry.
that is a crazy story!!! thanks for pasing it along it will be fun to tell visitors that I bring to iquitos.
when and if I golf I sure want pee in the trap
Well, it could have been a alligator! But, it’s a heck of a way to make the news, Mike! Way to go David Perry – you have really got a story to tell! Good thing you were’t wading in the water!!! Bet you had a “Wale” of a great time!
Well, it could have been that alligator! But, it’s a heck of a way to make the news, Mike! Way to go David Perry – you really have a great jungle story to tell! Good thing you were’t wading in the water!!!
I just read the post. Is that a tall tale? An Iquitos legend? Nice post.
Hi everyone, how could it have come to this?
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Bill you really do have a fertile imagination lets have a bit of proof.
if its true lets see some photographic evidence.
that is a crazy story!!!
heck of a way to make the news, Mike!
Is that a tall tale? An Iquitos legend?
We do have a photo of the finger tip bitten off, but it was such a bloody mess I decided it was too gross to publish on the blog. Not for the squeamish, that’s for sure.
Bill Grimes
Blagging and blogging seem to have become somewhat intertwined here Miguel!
Hello I am Mike Chiswell of Indus Films based in London.
I am prepared to pay 200 english pounds to the first man to wade with hands on head the entire length of that pool, but he must be naked !
I will require only video proof and of course I will own the sole rights to that video. Ant takers ?
Come on Mr Grimes post the photo !
The rising humidity must be messing with someones imagination…
Goog work tho.
Blagging and blogging
Mr. Chiswell sir, you do not have enough money for me to wade in the water hazard naked.
Post the photo.
Messing with someones imagination.
Maybe I should have posted the photo to begin with, but it is not a pretty sight. There does seem to be some doubt about the story, and interest in the proof. Tell you what, check back here tomorrow afternoon. See with your own eyes. I will accept all of your sincere apologies for casting doubt.
Bill Grimes
In reply to Mr Chiswell,
I am Mike collis the General Manager of the Amazon Golf Course and I thank you for your proposal to pay the first man to wade across one of our water traps naked.
Mr Chiswell, Sir, we are a golf course, we promote the sport of golf and we provide golf facilities to visiting golfers. Our course is a place where we play the “Glorious Game” with diginity and integrity and we cannot allow our beautiful golf course to be used as a venue for some kind of freak show.
So unfortunately we decline your offer, Thank you anyway.
Shame on you Mike, I would have done that.
Yes I know Wally , but you have nothing to lose.
I think its time to interview Crocs for Caddies.
I was told an interesting story about the Iquitos golf course. A golfer saw a nude young woman running across the course followed by two men carrying buckets of wet sand. the golfer stopped one of them and asked who the woman was. The man said: “She is a nymphomaniac who has escaped from the local insane asylum and we are keepers trying to catch her and put her back.” The man nodded and said:” Why the buckets of wet sand?” The keeper replied:”That’s our handicap”
Why not include a classic golf joke section within this site?
You never told us what he shot for the round
Dave Giardenelli (Otorongo Expeditions)
Ouch… a tall tale for sure.
I did’nt realise what a comotion my little argument with a pirahna has caused.
To you Doubting Thomas’s out there;
I am David Parry a Director of the Celtic Manor Golf Resort, the most prestigiou golf resort in Wales and home of the Welsh Open.
Back to the incident. I parred the first hole and made my first stroke on the second a distance of over 270 yards but unfortunately the ball was just in the shallow part of the water hazzard and I retrieved it but left a piece of my finger inside a fish in that hazzard. Margarita the Club Stewward was very, very good and she took me and my Wife Melonie straight to the hospital in Iquitos
where they stitched me up.
I reckon I could have gone round your beautiful little course with a score of 2 or more under par. I will now have to come back and do it.
On December 12th I will be attending a dinner at Wentworth Golf Course and I have been invited to speak about my visit to the Amazon Golf Course , I’m looking forward to it,
good job the speaches are after dinner !
this looks like glitter!!:/