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2. A hit golf ball bounces from several things (such as tree branches) before finally either going straight into the hole or landing right where it started. May be a [[A Worldwide Punomenon|stroke]] of luck, which ensures that the good guy wins the golfing tournament. See also [[Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics]].
Often the protagonist will be playing against their boss, who expects to win. The protagonist will have to lose in a way that looks natural, and overlook blatant cheating.
This trope usually makes a golfer play a ball in a place where nobody in the real world would. There are rules that cover this, and usually [[Gretzky Has the Ball|the writers are oblivious to them]] (or simply choose to ignore them in the name of hilarity ensuing).
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== Comic Books ==
* A Chinese Disney comic featured [[Donald Duck]] finding Gladstone Gander's hat (which has a four-leaf clover inside it) and getting hole in ones no matter what (at one point, the ball is knocked into a kid's remote-controlled plane, which carries it over to the hole). Donald then challenges Gladstone to a golf match (as it turned out, Gladstone didn't need the hat), and Gladstone's luck pulls through like always (he hit the ball towards the refreshment stand, and it bounced off a guy's raised shoe, hitting a flagpole and landing in the hole).
** 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 Golf Course, setting various landmarks as their holes.
** 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 200s.
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* 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 ==
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* ''[[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.
* Col. Blake and Co. had a tendency to play golf on the ''mine fields'' around the [[M*A*S*H (television)|4077th]].
* 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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== 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.
== Web Comics ==
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* 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).
* ''[[Cow and Chicken]]'', "Comet!". Dad's golf ball lands on Chicken's beak, and thus both ball and Chicken are flung through the air.
* An episode of ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' featured this on the eighteenth hole of a round of golf designed to settle a fender-bender between Grandpa Phil and Big Bob Pataki. Phil is forced to play a ball from a diner's quiche, and Arnold needs to make up a rhyme so that he can hit it. Found [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHC4wy1BhB0&feature=related here].
* In the Disney cartoon ''How to Play Golf'', Goofy takes "play where it lies" too far and ends up shooting the ball off the nose of a sleeping bull. What follows is one of the zaniest chase scenes ever, with Goofy running for his life while keeping the ball in play. At one point he misses the ball and runs back to hit it, narrowly avoiding being trampled by the bull.
* In one ''[[Danger Mouse]]'' episode, DM hits a ball so that it lands directly into the hole and then bounces off to the next one. He almost accomplishes an eighteen-holes-in-one, but the ball unfortunately misses the last hole. After he leaves, the ball miraculously goes into the hole.
* Some characters seem to indulge in this merely for the property damage. Gosalyn does this with a hockey puck in the first episode of ''[[Darkwing Duck (animation)|Darkwing Duck]]'', from the nose of a gangster. In a following episode, she is about to whack the ball off of her own father's bill before he calmly asks, "Have I ever told you the story about the little girl, the golf ball, and the ''firing squad''?"
* 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.
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