England’s David Lynn has found his footing in his first-ever PGA Championship and revealing he accidentally stood on an alligator’s head at the rented house where he is staying this week in South Carolina.

Lynn only learnt of his inclusion into the season’s final major until Tuesday last week but then guessed, given his World Ranking at the time of 91st should secure him a place in the Kiawah Island field.

This alligator is guarding the second hole but the one David Lynn stepped on. (Photo - Eoin Clarke/www.golffile.ie)

He and his girlfriend then rented an island villa for the week overlooking the swampland nature of much of coastal South Carolina.

However Lynn one morning forgot about the creatures that inhabit the swamps – alligators.

“I’m in the island in a lovely villa which has got a lovely bit of decking area sat over the water behind, there’s gators, and I literally stood on a gator’s head, that’s how close they are,” he revealed.

“I think there’s about three different ones come over.  They all seem to come over to where we are back at the house.”

But Lynn then indicated there is a rather large ‘gator among the three that’s named ‘The Dude’.

“He’s quite a big lad and he looks quite scary,” said Lynn.

“Well, the guys I’m staying with have named him Big Dude.”

Lynn’s a big dude himself standing at 6 feet 3 inches and with the former 2004 KLM Open winner flying high along the Kiawah Island shoreline.

Lynn was lying in a shar of 11th place when an on-coming electrical storm halted play at 4.50pm local time.