Players were stunned to see the spectacle of nature's brutality last week in the calm surroundings of Thornbury Golf Club in South Gloucestershire.  Seniors captain Lindsey Henniker-Heaton, 68, was putting on the 10th green when his friend Philip McMenamin called him over to the 17th.The pair arrived to find the 3ft grass snake trying to swallow the frog whole.As Mr Henniker-Heaton drew his iPhone, the frog - which he had assumed was dead - kicked into life and escaped the snake's jaws. 'I was playing a pairs match against Bristol Golf Club when Philip came running over to see if I had a camera,' he said.'I lay down on the green and managed to get a photograph of the both the frog’s and the snake’s eyes.'The frog looked dormant and Philip thought it might be dead, but then I saw its throat move.'The frog croaked into life and managed to jump out. It looked tired and Philip picked it up and put it in the grass nearby.  'I have never seen anything like it on the golf course.' An amphibians expert from Dartfrog, a shop and breeding centre in Bayton, Worcestershire, told MailOnline the lucky animal was a Common or European brown frog (Rana temporaria), which is native to Britain.(dailymail.co.uk)Bakudaily.az