"Without question the best golf story of my life.”

Barbara Rybolt with maybe the best golf-can-be-good-for-the-environment story of all time after a church group member playing Lighthouse Sound Golf Course in Maryland spotted a stranded whale and helped free the lucky mammal from a sandbar.

The church group was playing at Lighthouse Sound Golf Course in Maryland, when one of the golfers took a brief break - to save a whale.

Cooper related tale via email: “I was looking back over the water enjoying the view from the sixth tee box when I saw what I thought was the fin of a surf board turned upside down below the rocks. I walked back and saw that it was, in fact, what we now know is a Gervais Beaked Whale that was stuck on a sand bar.

“I reached for my phone to call 9-1-1 and, before I knew it, my friend Jeff Gibson was in the water (fully clothed, with golf shoes on) trying to push the whale off of the beach. Jeff literally had his arms wrapped around the whale’s waist pushing it off of the sand bar for 10 minutes.

“After 10 minutes of pushing him/ her, Jeff freed it and it swam away. There were three other fins in the water circling, seemingly waiting for their friend (you can’t make this stuff up).

“Jeff climbed out of the water to wild applause, stepped to the tee and ripped a 280-yard drive in soaking wet clothes and shoes. Without question the best golf story of my life (and I have had plenty).”

Matty G has some information on the type of whale and Stephanie Wei couldn't help but remember the Seinfeldian parallels.