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An image purportedly showing a group of people golfing dangerously close to a large forest fire was widely circulated on social media in September 2017: This image is real. It was posted to the Beacon Rock Golf Course Facebook page on 6 September 2017 with the caption Our golfers are committed to finishing the round! The golf course posted one other image of the blaze: The viral photograph was taken by amateur photographer Kristi McCluer. She confirmed to The Oregonian that the image was real, although she noted that she had lightened it: But the golfers were in less danger than they appear to be in the viral photograph. Mark Mayfield, Beacon Rock's operations manager, told CNN that the fire was further away than it appears and that the Columbia River provided a buffer between the blaze and the golf course: Brandon Crawford, who identified himself as the man putting in the viral photograph, elaborated on the bizarre scene: The massive fire shown in these pictures ravaged the Eagle Creek area of Oregon in early September 2017. Police believe that the blaze started after a teenager set off a smoke bomb. According to Oregon Live, the fire spread across more than 30,000 acres and destroyed 3 homes during the first six days.
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