Golfing tourist lucky to escape crocodile attack after scary round in Cancun Unexpected bunker hazard ... Dougie Thompson is lucky to be alive after being attacked by a crocodile at a golf course in Cancun, Mexico. Photo: Craig Franklin Dougie Thompson is recovering in hospital after reportedly being attacked by a crocodile while playing golf in Mexico. Mr Thompson, 58, a father of two originally from Wishaw near Glasgow, had been in Cancun for a family wedding when his round of golf came to a rather abrupt end. One of them started hitting the crocodile as well while the other actually drove the [golf] cart over it. He told the London's Daily Mirror how he was attacked just after clipping a shot from a bunker onto the green. My ball was in the bunker around 10 to 15 feet [3-5 metres] from thick shrubbery. I didn't even know there was water behind the bushes. I took a shot and it landed on the green. Then I heard this noise behind me and this huge crocodile snapped me by the thigh. I couldn't feel pain, I was in total shock. It was like a big toy, big black eyes looking at me. Mr Thompson said he was rescued by his friends, Brendan O'Hara, Gordon Victory and Martin Botright. It opened its mouth a bit. My friends pulled me back but it snapped again and grabbed my hip a bit higher up. Then it just stopped suddenly. When they eventually pulled me away, it started attacking the golf cart. My friends were more shocked than I was as they had to see the attack. Mr Thompson, who described his leg as looking like a "butcher's shop window," will be flown to Toronto, where he now lives, for further treatment. But for his friends" intervention, Mr Thompson added, "It would have pulled me back into the lagoon and had me for supper."