“There were three cartfuls of people chasing him at one point."

Thanks to twobird for Selim Algar and Kieran Crowley's entertaining account of a jewelry heist that spilled onto the Village Club of Lake Success, with three "hoodlums" jumping from an SUV on the course.

As one golfer was preparing his fifth hole tee shot, one of the desperados suddenly hopped into his golf cart.

The carjacker coyly delivered the line “enjoy the show” before puttering away, according to witness George Shores.

Unwilling to let the thug get away with his clubs, the golfer flagged down another hacker who was cruising by -- and the duffers set off on a low-speed chase across the links.

“It was like the Keystone Kops out here,” the chuckling Shores said. “You see everything on a golf course after awhile. It was so crazy that you just have to laugh at it.”

The fleeing burglar eventually ditched the cart near the fifth hole, threw a bag over a nearby fence and hopped over, Shores said. He remained at large as of last night.

The golfers then watched in disbelief as another man in a white tank top suddenly emerged from the aptly named Lake Surprise at the course’s periphery.

“We asked the guy what he was doing,” Shores said. “He told us he was going for a swim and then took off running.”