“Luckily I didn’t have my kids with me.

“I was jogging along, had my phone in my hand, I was actually taking photos of plants… I take cuttings and stuff.

“I went around the corner and they must have heard my feet, because I had my headphones on so I would have been stomping.

“I stopped, I turned around and went back around the corner, and I thought, ‘Oh my God, nobody’s going to believe me’.”

A set of golf clubs can be seen next to the couple lying on the ground – one of them was snapped without pants on.

“So I got my phone and just did a quick video, probably a four-second video, but by that time they had stopped moving, I think they were aware of my presence.”

She considered running back the way she came but said it was too far to go back.

“So I thought, ‘Stop it,’ and I ran right past them.”

She said she did not see the couple’s faces, but thought it was a man and a woman.

“They must have been golfers because they had a golf caddy (cart) and everything.”

The golf club is located in the small coastal town Clarks Beach in the Franklin District – about an hour’s drive south of Auckland, on the shores of Manukau Harbour.

The woman said she made the now-viral online post because she believed “someone may have cheated on someone”.

“After my run, I saw a man and a woman playing golf in the distance, and they looked like they were in their 50s or 60s.

“So I had a feeling that maybe it was them, but they didn’t make eye contact with me.”

The woman wrote in her original post: “I mean, I understand the passion, but couldn’t they have at least chosen a little more private place? Like, maybe a bush or something.”

When Herald contacted Clarks Beach Golf Club for comment, it confirmed it was “aware of it happening”.

They declined to comment on the details of the incident but said it was an odd situation.

They acknowledged the incident in a humorous post on social media.

“After the viral height of viral marketing that really put our golf club on the map… it’s time to get down to business!”.

Police said they could not immediately find any reports to police of such activity.

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