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Also worth noting is the question "Do you breathe in or out on the backswing?", a question intended to set up a [[Centipede's Dilemma]] in the person queried and a more-or-less blatant way to cheat under pretense of admiring the opponent's form. It doesn't quite rise to the level of its own trope, at least not when limited to golf.
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== Anime
* A chapter in ''[[Kochikame]]'' when Ryotsu rigs the game allowing his team (using a remote control ball) to win including helping his boss Ohara. The last stroke, Ryotsu has to play fair and square and surprisingly, like Dale Gribble's quote above, a crow took the ball and dropped it in the hole. Each subsequent win, there's a large party hosted.
* One chapter of ''[[Ghost Sweeper Mikami]]'' had Reiko dueling a spirit in a golf match on a course with impossible terrain, with both players using psychic powers to control the ball. Amusingly, the match is won by Okinu, who had never played golf before, and was playing the game normally, mainly because subtracting her absurdly high handicap from her absurdly high score put her one point below the enemy's score.
* A joke features a person playing a covert, forbidden game of golf (most commonly, a priest skipping out on Mass to hit the links or a rabbi on Saturday) and making eighteen holes-in-one. The punchline is God, in reply to an incredulous angel, shrugging and asking, "Who's he gonna tell?"▼
* [[Older Than Radio]]: W.C. Fields created a hilarious golf game parody sketch, first in vaudeville and then in movies.▼
* Another joke: Jesus, Moses and an old man are playing golf. Moses hits his ball and it lands in the water. He walks out to it, touches the water with his club and the water parts, allowing him to play through for a birdie. Jesus hits his ball and it lands ON the water. He walks on the water to it and plays through for a birdie as well. The old man hits his ball and it sails up into the air, hits a hawk then falls into a tree, hits a squirrel and ricochets into a neighboring yard where a dog catches it in his mouth, runs across the fairway and drops it on the green where it rolls into the hole for a "Hole in One". Moses looks at Jesus and says: "I hate playing with your Dad".▼
== Comic Books ==
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** Published here too in ''Walt Disney's Comics and Stories'' 668 (2006).
** A much older story featured an unusual inversion where Don kept mysteriously winning with increasingly improbable ways, while Gladstone's failures became utterly spectacular, culminating him to swallowing his own ball. At the end it turned out that a man who had been observing them for all the time was a reporter who was going to reward the ''worst'' golf player of the day with a large sum of money.
* An [[Archie Comics]] story has the guys turning the entire town of Riverdale into a huge
** One hole only - Archie, Reggie and Jughead played one hole from one end of town to the other, starting in a public park, and ending in Dilton Doiley's rain hat, ''hanging on a hook in his workshop''. Par is in the mid
== Film ==
* ''[[Happy Gilmore]]'' did both.
** Perhaps one of the most egregious examples, as the first part happens, followed by the first again, followed by the second, in the space of ''five minutes''.
* Likewise the ''[[Caddyshack]]'' movies.
* Both happen in the final game in Swedish movie ''The Unwilling Golfer''. At one point the ball lands on a truck that drives away, but the protagonist's sponsor calls the driver and pays him to instead park by the green.
** The bit about attire also applies. The antagonist holds an elitist attitude about "proper attire" on the course, which he follows by wearing tartan shorts, which just looks silly (and the attire is complete with grey suit jacket and a plain cap). Meanwhile, the protagonist's
*** So, he used the [[No True Scotsman]] fallacy to his advantage? *ducks*
* The ex-president in ''[[Welcome to Mooseport]]'' wins his golf games through cheating, though he doesn't know it—whenever one of his shots goes into the woods to the side of the course, the Secret Service agents hiding there throw it back onto the green, and he thinks he's just lucky. {{spoiler|He challenges the other protagonist to a game of golf, but his ex-wife forces the agents out of hiding, and he discovers that without their help he's completely outmatched.}}
* [[Ian Fleming]] supposedly wanted to show that [[Goldfinger|Auric Goldfinger]] was truly a [[Card-Carrying Villain]] by having him and [[James Bond]] play golf. Goldfinger flagrantly cheated, which to a Scot like Fleming is beyond the [[Moral Event Horizon]].
== Literature ==
* According to ''Death's Domain: A [[Discworld]] Mapp'', Death's golf course is ''designed'' to have bizarre and improbable effects, since it's filled with dimensional instabilities, folds in space-time and gravitational anomalies, all in an effort to counteract [[The Grim Reaper]]'s [[Awesomeness By Analysis]] which prevents him from understanding that getting a small ball to go exactly where you want is ''supposed'' to be difficult. It also has a windmill, the symbol of crazy golf everywhere. It grinds the balls very finely. The accompanying illustration shows Death in his normal robes, but Albert, caddying, sports the traditional tartan plus-fours and silly hat.
* A particularly memorable one in [[John M. Ford]]'s ''[[Star Trek]]'' novel ''[[How Much For Just the Planet?]]''
** "Do you know there are land mines on this ground?" "Well, I should think we'd know. Not going to play eighteen holes without doing our recce, are we? Twelfth at Direidi, best par 4 in the galaxy."
** Upon receiving permission to play through, they proceed to do so with ''artillery.'' "They" [[The Cameo|being]] [[Doctor Who|the Brigadier and Sergent Benton]]. Yeah.
== Live-Action TV ==
* An episode of Marty Feldman's sketch show ''[[Marty (TV series)|Marty]]'' does the first.
* The entire second half of "Tee Off, [[Mr. Bean]]" is an example of this trope. Mr. Bean plays on a mini-golf course, but after hitting the ball too hard it flies out of the course and he pursues it around town, into the sewers, on the bus, through a grocery store, etc. Finally he cuts a piece out of the ground where the ball sits and brings it back to the course late at night to finish the hole with a score of 3,427.
* An early episode of ''[[Scrubs]]'' had J.D. joining Dr Cox and Dr Kelso for their regular golf game. This led to a sequence of scenes in which Cox and Kelso debated medical ethics through J.D., apparently unconcerned that he was trying to play balls that had landed in increasingly ridiculous positions.
* ''[[Lost]]'', of all things, has featured a number of golf games, due to Hurley's finding clubs in the luggage and building a course. One match saw the Losties betting on whether Jack would sink a putt, [[No Ending|without showing the resolution]]. Another had Kate urging Jack to take a penalty when he hit it into the stream (again, no resolution, as they were interrupted by Mr. Eko carrying a bloody and unconscious Sawyer.) One of the mobisodes centered on Jin missing a putt and throwing a tantrum about how nothing is going his way and how alone he is.
* ''[[I Dream of Jeannie]]'' had a golf game where the ball did lots of bizarre and improbable things, but that was because of Jeannie's magic.
* ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'': Col. Blake and Co. had a tendency to play golf on the ''mine fields'' around the
* In the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode "Window of Opportunity," Jack and Teal'c wind up trapped in a [[Groundhog Day Loop]], and in order to alleviate the monotony engage in a variety of antics, including playing golf ''through the 'gate''. Hammond interrupts to ask what he's doing, to which everyone's favorite [[Deadpan Snarker]] retorts: "In the middle of my backswing?"
** Also, Jack drives a ball into the gate and asks Teal'c how far away the dialed planet is from their current location. Teal'c responds that it is "Several billion miles", to which Jack remarks "That's gotta be a record."
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== Music ==
* The video for Dinosaur Jr.'s
== Newspaper Comics ==
* In an [[Improbable Ballistics]] example, Roger Fox from ''[[FoxTrot]]'' (who's a notoriously terrible golfer) hits the ball, bounces it off several trees, golf carts, pins, roads, etc... only to have it wind up back on the tee. In the words of his wife, "I can't tell whether the people behind us are laughing or crying."
* ''[[
* [[Charles Addams]] once drew a cartoon showing a golfer grimly prying open an alligator's mouth as his young black caddie pokes around inside the beast with a club attempting to retrieve a swallowed ball; the golfer's partner admonishes him to "just take a penalty stroke."
== Recorded and Stand Up Comedy ==
▲* A joke features a person playing a covert, forbidden game of golf (most commonly, a priest skipping out on Mass to hit the links or a rabbi on Saturday) and making eighteen holes-in-one. The punchline is God, in reply to an incredulous angel, shrugging and asking, "Who's he gonna tell?"
▲* [[Older Than Radio]]: W.C. Fields created a hilarious golf game parody sketch, first in vaudeville and then in movies.
▲* Another joke: Jesus, Moses and an old man are playing golf. Moses hits his ball and it lands in the water. He walks out to it, touches the water with his club and the water parts, allowing him to play through for a birdie. Jesus hits his ball and it lands ON the water. He walks on the water to it and plays through for a birdie as well. The old man hits his ball and it sails up into the air, hits a hawk then falls into a tree, hits a squirrel and ricochets into a neighboring yard where a dog catches it in his mouth, runs across the fairway and drops it on the green where it rolls into the hole for a "Hole in One". Moses looks at Jesus and says: "I hate playing with your Dad".
== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Ribbit King]]'', the golf balls are frogs (and the game contracts "frog golf" to "frolf"). Yes, they hop upon landing, and yes, there are all kinds of bizarre and improbable hazards - most of which shouldn't be avoided, since they're usually worth extra points.
* ''[[Battle Golfer Yui]]'' is an extreme version of golf with over-the-top characters, who are references based on old Japanese media. Each character uses super powers during the matches as they are Battle Golfers.
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== Web Original ==
* ''[[Badass of the Week]]'' once featured an article on the rules of Battle Golf: a game played by 4 incredibly drunk people. Each 2-man team attempts to get their ball into the hole while preventing the other team from doing so with BB pistols, butter knives and other weapons.
* The online golf game, ''[[Pangya]]'', a game with regular golf physics but with massively chaotic courses, awards a x2 score modifier for that shot every time the ball hits an obstacle but goes in. And by "massively chaotic", we mean that playing on a course made out of multiple ''naval vessels'' is of intermediate difficulty.
* ''[[Wonderputt]]'' has a [http://www.kongregate.com/games/dampgnat/wonderputt similarly bizarre setting], with the courses laid out by meteorites, snowclouds, [[Aliens Steal Cattle|cows being abducted by a flying saucer]], a submarine stuck in ice and so forth.
* ''[[Wallace and Gromit
== Western Animation ==
* This happens in the opening of the ''[[Woody Woodpecker]]'' short ''The Loose Nut''.
* Parodied in ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]''.
* In an episode of ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'', "Teed Off", Ed Bighead plays against his boss, Mr. DuPette, and in order to make sure DuPette wins, Ed's manager has the golf course management launch ''pianos'' at Ed's ball (and [[Anvil on Head|occasionally Ed]]) from many improbable piano launchers, including a [[Kill Sat]]. But Heffer, who is working at the golf course and oblivious to the fact Ed is ''supposed'' to lose, tries to help Ed. At the end, Ed wins, and while Ed's manager is furious, Mr. DuPette doesn't seem to mind (however, unfortunately for Ed, he doesn't give him the promotion he was hoping for).
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* One ''[[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]]'' cartoon has him playing against a Scotsman. Needless to say, he fudges the rules a bit, like digging a trench to lead the ball into the hole, for instance.
* Pretty much any time the sport appeared on ''[[The Flintstones]]'', it was like this.
* The ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' golf
* The ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' short "Tee for Two" turns into this.
* The ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' episode "Way Below Par", since [[The Caligula|Lucius]] is cheating and [[Mad Scientist|Heloise]] is making Jimmy cheat.
* ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'' episode "Mr. Tux" had a plot centered around this. And made no apologies for the obviously physics-defying shots. Apparently Mr. Tux is really just so good at mini-golf that he can bend physics to his will.
* The last event of a ''[[Laff-A-Lympics]]'' episode was a golf game. Cindy Bear wrote "18th hole" at the ball and used an umbrella for a golf club. She hit the ball at the wrong direction and it hit several random things until falling into the hole. Cindy won the game.
* Miniature Golf doesn't get much more improbable and bizarre than in ''[[Futurama
* The page quote above, from ''[[King of the Hill]]'' in which they turn the ally into a replica of a Country Club's signature hole. At one point, Bill apparently had hit the ball into a garbage can. He tries to play it where it lies, but predictably doesn't get anywhere.
* The ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Put that Putter Away" is a perfect example of this.
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* Kevin Na recently suffered through a 16 on a par 4 in the PGA Tour after he played a ball out of the woods. The issue appears to be that, once he attempted to play it out, he could no longer take the penalty and move to the previous position, as that previous position was also within the woods.
* Vijay Singh hit a ball of the 16th tee at the 2009 Masters, it skipped about 5 times off the water hazard, hit the berm, bounced onto the green, took a curve to the left, and rolled right into the cup. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg9GOMAB31Q Watch it here.]
* [http://espn.go.com/golf/story/_/id/12461463/roaming-alligators-boon-florida-golf-course A golf course in Florida]
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