Graeme McDowell likes the sights and sounds of Augusta National including admiring the wonderful array of flowers all about the Georgia golfing gem.

But the former US Open champion didn’t count on seeing a snake emerge from a bed of azaleas on the par five 13th tee.

And the Northern Irishman quickly grabbed his mobile phone to snap a picture of the Cottonmouth reptile and according to Wikipedia an adult cottonmouth snake is capable of delivering a painful and potentially fatal bite.

Graeme McDowell’s snake of a cottonmouth snake that can deliver a fatal bite.