A COBRA left fans in astonishment after fleeing a mongoose by slithering onto a golf course and jumping over an obstacle.<br /><br />The snake can be seen moving on to the fairway after coming out of the trees behind it.<br /><br />The mongoose is just about visible in the background and decides against following the cobra onto the course.<br /><br />The snake remarkably leaps over a small black object as it continues to further its way onto the finely cut grass.<br /><br />The video, shared on Tuesday, has already been viewed on Twitter two million times.<br /><br />According to some of the responses, the golf course is in Cape Town, South Africa.<br /><br />The original post came with the caption: "Koperkapel (Cape Cobra), on our ladies' tee box!<br /><br />"I'm going to hit straight from now on!"<br /><br />And social media users were quick to react in their droves as they voiced their shock at the clip.<br /><br />One said: "What in the world kind of golf course is this… I’d be skipping that hole."<br /><br />Another added: "That cobra is beautiful. Also, I would never play golf there ever again."<br /><br />A third replied: "The way it whipped onto that marker was scary."<br /><br />While a fourth responded: "Get this damn sign out of my way! ."<br /><br />And a fifth said: "Show off, it noticed it was being recorded and did a little jump. "