PGA Tour star Billy Horschel sprang into action Thursday during the opening round of the Cognizant Classic, shooing a gator back into the water with his 60-degree wedge.

The Cognizant Classic kicked off at PGA National on Thursday, formally starting the PGA Tour’s Florida Swing. Golf is off and running now. With the PGA Tour now in Florida, golf fans are catching a glimpse of the environment akin to the southeast.

Billy Horschel, who went viral Thursday after moving a ... Horschel, 38, comes from a long line of great Gators. Not gators. The 2009 University of Florida graduate is part of the school's golf royalty that has produced a litany of golfers who have ...

This wasn’t Billy Horschel’s first encounter with alligators. He was born in Grant, Florida, and spent his college career with the Florida Gators.

(AP) — A Gator took on a gator. Billy Horschel won. Let’s explain: Horschel played his college golf for the Florida Gators, so he knows plenty about the wildlife that gets seen on courses in the Sunshine State — including, yes, alligators. And when a ...

Billy Horschel, who went viral Thursday ... comes from a long line of great Gators. Not gators. The 2009 University of Florida graduate is part of the school's golf royalty that has produced ...