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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"Okay, you guys, it's dangerous, so we need to be prepared. So I brought a golf club!"''
|'''''Yosuke''''', [[Peachi]]'s ''[[Persona 4]]'' [[Web Comic]]}}
When you think of sports equipment-as-[[Improvised Weapon]], you probably think of a [[Batter Up|baseball bat]]. But thugs who want to be a bit different, perhaps show a bit more class, reach instead for their 9-iron. Where the former is essentially a [[Carry a Big Stick|big stick]], your golf club is more like a [[Drop the Hammer|hammer]], with all the weight concentrated on the point of impact.
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Compare [[Batter Up]]. Has nothing to do with [[Not My Driver]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== Anime and Manga ==
* Taiga does it in ''[[GaoGaiGar]]'', even [[Calling Your Attacks|Calling His Attack]] while doing it ("TITANIUM HEAD DRIVER!").
* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'': Keiichi gets a golf club in preparation for a fight at one point. [[Completely Missing the Point|Said fight was actually a friend asking for help at a baseball game.]]
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* In ''[[You're Under Arrest]]'', Aoi Futaba (who was in the golf team at high school) attacks some yakuzas who were armed with guns and taking cover beside a short cliff by hitting golf balls at them with a club. (The anime version of this story was much different; in that version, Aoi, who used to be a basketball player instead of a golf player, uses basketball moves to stop some delinquents from stealing a valuable pair of shoes.)
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Green Lantern]]'' foe the Sportsman frequently uses golf clubs as weapons.
* [[Psycho for Hire]] Mr. Fun in the ''[[Batman]] Family'' mini-series uses a golf club as a weapon.
== [[Film]] - Live Action ==
* ''[[Starsky and Hutch (film)|Starsky and Hutch]]'': Reese Feldman slaps [[Snoop Dogg|Huggy Bear]] while he's posing as a caddy, for forgetting the nine iron. Later, Huggy whacks him in the head with it.
{{quote|'''Huggy Bear:''' Found your nine iron, bitch.}}
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* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'': In the first movie, Casey Jones, who is known for using sports equipment as his [[Weapon of Choice]], uses a driver to good effect against [[The Dragon|Tatsu]].
{{quote|'''Casey:''' I'll never call golf a dull game again.}}
* ''[[The Dark Knight Saga|Batman Begins]]'': Alfred knocks out a member of the League of Shadows
* ''[[Wasabi]]'' is a French-Japanese action comedy. A golf
* ''[[Suicide Kings]]'': The Denis Leary character uses an iron to severely admonish a minor character, then complains loudly about these damn flimsy plastic shafts.
* ''[[Dogma]]'': Jay whacks Azrael in the chest with a golf club, which Azrael believes to be a futile gesture... until it smashes his chest open. Turns out Cardinal Glick is the kind of pompous person who would bless his golf clubs for a better game.
* In ''[[The 51st State]]'', [[Samuel L. Jackson]]'s character, [[Rated "M" for Manly|El]][[Cultured Badass|mo]], manages to [[Curb Stomp Battle|destroy]] a gang of
* Evoked and made more badass in ''[[Don:
* In ''[[Uncle Buck]]'', the title character drives away his niece's lecherous ex-boyfriend this way, pelting him with a club-driven ball ''twice''.
* In ''[[Coneheads]]'' This becomes a [[Chekhov's Skill]] for Beldar. After developing a talent for golf during the [[Microts|"seven zerls"]] he spends on Earth, he is able to "narfle the Garthok" (ie, slay a huge monster during [[Trial by Combat]]) on his own planet by putting together a makeshift club and driving a stone into the beast's maw, causing it to choke to death.
== Literature ==▼
▲== [[Literature]] ==
* Used at the end in ''[[The Millennium Trilogy|The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo]]''. Given a stealth [[Call Back]] in the dedication in Mikael's book;
{{quote|''To Sally, who taught me the benefits of the game of golf''.}}
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* Subverted in ''[[World War Z]]''; one character recalls that he saw a man trying to fight a zombie off with a golf club, only for the club to eventually bend, leaving him defenseless.
== [[Live
* In the ''[[Law
▲* In the ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'' episode "Lead" a child molester is beaten to death with a golf club.
▲* Not used, but recommended over a basebal bat by Fiona in ''[[Burn Notice]]''
== Theatre ==▼
▲== [[Theatre]] ==
* A golf club is the murder weapon in the [[Agatha Christie]] play {{spoiler|''Spider's Web''.}}
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Silent Hill 4]]'': Henry can pick up a couple of golf clubs as weapons, they're rather fragile and not practical to haul around given his limited inventory slots.
* ''[[Dead Rising]]'': one of the survivors you can rescue in the second game is a pro golfer who's using her favorite club to keep zombies at bay. She's very nonchalant about the situation, saying that this is good practice for her swing and she hopes her favorite club won't [[Breakable Weapons|fall apart]]. While you can use a club in the game, all you can do is drive golf balls into zombies' faces until you run out. It apparently never occurs to your character to use it as a melee weapon.
* In ''[[Persona 4]]'', the main character's traditional weaponry is two-handed swords... or, alternatively, golf clubs.
* ''[[Halo 3]]'' got a 7-wood golf club with the Mythic Map Pack, which is a reskin of the Gravity Hammer. It goes along with the golf ball and golf hole Forge items. It returns in ''[[Halo: Reach]]'', and can be used in Firefight.
* ''[[
** In the original ''[[Bioshock]]'', a main character is killed with his own golf club... {{spoiler|at his own request, by the brainwashed player character.}}
** ''[[
** In the multiplayer, a golf club is the signature melee weapon of the Businessman, Buck Raleigh. Also, the "Kill 'em Kindly" mode gives everyone a golf club and limits them to melee only, regardless of their chosen character.
* ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' has a 9-iron weapon, and it has a special move in VATS called "Fore!", where you [[Groin Attack|hit the enemy in the groin.]] This is also the [[Weapon of Choice]] of Driver Nephi, one of the [[
* ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' series: One of Peach's randomly-selected weapons.
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' series
** ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City]]'': In "Four Iron", Tommy Vercetti is asked to 'persuade' a businessman to do a deal. During the mission he lacks his usual weapons.
** ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'': Golf clubs can be used as a melee weapon. If CJ knocks someone down, he will then uses a golf swing.
* The ''[[Hitman]]'' series
* In ''[[Ragnarok Online]]'', the Priest class can be armed with Iron Drivers.
* In ''[[MadWorld]]'', Jack can use a golf club as a weapon, including in the Man Golf minigame.
* In ''[[Wandering Hamster]]'', getting a perfect score in mini-golf course earns Bob a golf club to use as a weapon.
* There is a game called ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|Itchy and Scratchy]] in Miniature Golf Madness''. Three guesses whether it features this trope.
* ''[[Left 4 Dead
* In ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'', there's a golf club available as one of the Demoman's many melee weapons. It's a re-skin of the [[
== Western Animation ==▼
* ''[[
* In ''[[King of the Hill]]'', Hank is not afraid to use golf clubs to defend himself. He keeps a bag full of them by the front door. In ''The Buck Stops Here'', Hank pulls his club against the bouncer who's after Bobby's given wristwatch which Buck waged on.
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