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RIO DE JANEIRO — The first round of golf in Olympic history was completed on Thursday without a single golfer being attacked by a boa constrictor, crocodile or any number of animals the golfers heard they might see on the course.
“It’s a good incentive to stay in the fairway,’’ Britain’s Justin Rose told USA TODAY Sports.“The coolest thing to me is that mega rat that lives out here. I saw him on the fifth hole, the par 5.’’
That would be the cabybara, rodents that are built a little like John Daly and weigh as much as 145 pounds and stand up to two feet tall.