Some moose on the loose caused quite the disruption to a high school golf match in North Dakota recently.
When it comes to the game of golf, there are a fair amount of both written and unwritten rules. There are a lot of tertiary things you have to remember while hitting your little white ball around, like always repairing divots and pitch marks (the indention your ball leaves when it hits the green) when you can, and making sure to never walk in someone’s line.
I guess the pair of moose in this video didn’t get the “don’t walk in other people’s lines” memo.
It’s estimated that only about 500 wild moose call North Dakota home. We know at least two of them are currently residing in Crosby, North Dakota, thanks to this video that’s getting some attention online. The footage shows a duo of sizable moose running amuck on a golf course, and causing a high school golf match to pause play until it was safe to continue on.
In case you didn’t know, moose are the largest of all deer that are in the deer family, and their height and weight might surprise you. Males are typically bigger than females, though both genders are generally ginormous (that’s the scientific term for describing moose size). On average, a bull moose usually stands at 6 feet tall at their shoulders, and can even weigh up to 1,400 pounds.
So it’s smart for this high school golf match to initiate a delay. Moose are nothing to be messed with, and you certainly wouldn’t want to hit into them (even if they are holding up play). The National Park Service advises a buffer zone of about 25 yards for moose, and if these golfers are playing it as it lies, they can’t assure that their golf balls will stay out of the way of the moose (or vice versa).
That’s why you’ll see a gathering of high school golfers sitting on a tee box waiting to play their next shots while the two moose trot around with reckless abandon. It’s always best to err on the side of caution… and that’s exactly what these high schoolers were doing:
How am I suppose to chip with that going on, Doug?
All joking aside, a greenskeeper in an area that’s considered “moose country” must have one of the more frustrating jobs out there. Even a moose just walking across the golf course could call for some serious repair. And it looks like these very mature moose were high stepping around the links, which probably left plenty of moose-induced areas worthy of ground-under-repair designation.
Most of the social media users that stumbled across the video just wrote it off as a normal, North Dakota occurrence:
Ah yes just a normal moose delay in North Dakota
— Laura (@lgallenberger) May 8, 2026
Just another day in North Dakota!
— Miss Lexie (@Girl2011Su56796) May 8, 2026
Oh yeah – the ole Moose delay… who hasn’t run into that one before. 🤪😜
— Stephen Dahl (@crusaders1990) May 8, 2026
