Golf Clubbing: Difference between revisions

 

Compare [[Batter Up]]. Has nothing to do with [[Not My Driver]].

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== 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.]]

 

== 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.}}

 

== 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''.}}

* 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.

 

* 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 ==

* 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 ''Bioshock'', a main character is killed with his own golf club... {{spoiler|at his own request, by the brainwashed player character.}}

** ''[[BioShock (series)|Bioshock 2]]'': While not actually a usable weapon, while in the "Journey to the Surface" ride in Ryan Amusements, you come across a animatronic Andrew Ryan. Behind him is one of his golf clubs. If you use Telekinesis, you ''can'' use it as a weapon by throwing it at something. If you throw it at the Andrew Ryan animatronic, you get an achievement: {{spoiler|9-Irony}}.

* ''[[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 [[Exclusively Evil|Fiend]] leaders, who carries a unique driver.

* ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' series: One of Peach's randomly-selected weapons.

 

== 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.