--- title: Iguana Eats Ball Andrew Loupe Hit at PGA Puerto Rico Open 2014 description: An iguana tried to eat Andrew Loupe's golf ball during the final round of PGA's 2014 Puerto Rico Open canonical: https://time.com/19111/watch-an-iguana-try-to-eat-a-guys-golf-ball/ author: Olivia B. 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In this video uploaded to YouTube by [PGA Tour](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7ICfniKRKo), one of the broadcasters jokes, “C’mon, push it back to the hole!” Yahoo Sports [reports](http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/golf-devil-ball-golf/iguana-attacks-golf-ball-at-puerto-rico-open-163037048.html), “Loupe would go on to make par on the 16th, post a final round 69 and finish T-12 at the other PGA Tour event that went down this weekend.” In this clip, the announcers also refer to a 1998 incident in which a seagull picked up golfer Steve Lowery’s [golf ball](http://espn.go.com/espnw/news/article/6523323/island-hole-no-paradise-players-championship), flew away, and eventually dropped it into a water hazard, [according to](http://espn.go.com/espnw/news/article/6523323/island-hole-no-paradise-players-championship) ESPN.com. 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