History Main / BizarreAndImprobableGolfGame

* ''Film/HappyGilmore'' did both, in perhaps one of the most over-the-top examples. First, Shooter [=McGavin=] has to hit his ball off of [[TheBigGuy Mr. Larson]]'s foot, then a tower falls upon the eighteenth green in front of Happy's ball. Instead of taking two strokes to hit the ball around the tower and proceed to sudden death, Happy hits it up onto the fallen tower's pieces, which now act like a mini-golf tunnel-tube arrangement that just so happens to put the ball in the hole, giving victory to Happy in a single stroke. All in the space of ''five minutes''.

* Related to the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes repertoire, "Raw! Raw! Rooster" has Foghorn Leghorn visited by his showoff college roommate Rhode Island Red. In a bid to outshow Red, Foggy substitues regular golf balls with exploding balls for Red to hit as Foggy runs for the hills. Red hits the ball, but it doesn't explode until it hits Foggy. Confused and flustered, Foggy takes a swing at a ball and it explodes on contact.

* The golf episode for ''WesternAnimation/MotormouseAndAutocat'' was "King Size Caddy." Autocat's attempts to disrupt Motormouse's round of golf end up in usual failure: after a catapult results in Autocat getting his head planted in a hole:

* The last event of a ''WesternAnimation/LaffALympics'' episode ("Grand Canyon/Scotland") was a golf game where the object was to score a hole in one. Cindy Bear wrote "18th hole" on the ball ([[VisualPun she took addressing the ball literally]]) 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.

* Related to the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes repertoire, "Raw! Raw! Rooster" has Foghorn Leghorn visited by his showoff college roommate Rhode Island Red. In a bid to outshow Red, Foggy substitues regular golf balls with exploding balls for Red to hit as Foggy runs for the hills. Red hits the ball, but it doesn't explode until it hots Foggy. Confused and flustered, Foggy takes a swing at a ball and it explodes on contact.

* One ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunny'' 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.

* ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}, Brutus, Olive and Wimpy participate in a rather unusual game of golf in "Golf Brawl." Olive can't sink a putt, Wimpy can't hit the ball, and Popeye and Brutus as usual compete against each other. Brutus gets a literal birdie [[note]](One under par from tee-off to hole in regulation golf)[[/note]] when he hits a hawk's egg by accident and the chick hatches and attacks him.

* The ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' short "Tee for Two" turns into this as Tom proves to be a horrible linkster. He fudges his score card with a score of 2, but when Jerry shakes his head shaming him, Tom grudgingly changes the score to 32.

* ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}, Brutus, Olive and Wimpy participate in a rather unusual game of golf in "Golf Brawl." Olive can't sink a putt, Wimpy can't hit the ball, and Popeye and Brutus as usual compete against each other.

* "Hole in One (Or Two)" is a game played on ''Series/ThePriceIsRight.'' How close to the hole you get to putt tje ball depends on how well you pick grocery items from the cheapest to most costly. Some contestants will have the ball putted so hard it bounces off the greens barricade and into the hole. (Former show model Janice Pennington actually had that happen when she made a practice putt.)

* ''WesternAnimation/TheDeputyDawgShow'': "Diamonds In The Rough" was Deputy Dawg assigned to find and arrest a diamond smuggler when a seemingly errant golfer hits his ball into DD's office ("I slice badly," says). It is then deduced the golfer is the smuggler and the diamonds are hidden in the golf balls.

%%* The ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' short "Tee for Two" turns into this.

* The last event of a ''WesternAnimation/LaffALympics'' episode was a golf game. Cindy Bear wrote "18th hole" on the ball ([[VisualPun she took addressing the ball literally]]) 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.

* ''Wonderputt'' has a [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/dampgnat/wonderputt similarly bizarre setting,]] with the courses laid out by meteorites, snowclouds, [[AliensStealCattle cows being abducted by a flying saucer]], a submarine stuck in ice and so forth.

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', "Man Without a Country Club"

** Bob Uecker hits a ball from the water hazard (the water is so deep Bob is completely underwater, with his hat floating on top).
** Rodney Dangerfield hits a ball that bounces off a weather vane, down the downspout of a rain gutter, onto the green and into the hole.

* ''Film/HappyGilmore'' did both, in perhaps one of the most over-the-top examples. First, Shooter [=McGavin=] has to hit his ball off of [[TheBigGuy Mr. Larson]]'s foot, then a tower falls upon the eighteenth green in front of Happy's ball. Instead of taking two strokes to hit the ball around the tower and head to sudden death, Happy hits it up onto the fallen tower's pieces, which now act like a mini-golf tunnel-tube arrangement that just so happens to put the ball in the hole, giving victory to Happy in a single stroke. All in the space of ''five minutes''.

* Miniature Golf doesn't get much more improbable and bizarre than in ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}: The Wild Green Yonder.'' First of all Leo Wong builds the world's largest miniature golf course, and plays golf on it. Then Amy Wong, pro-golfer, plays it with the Planet Express ship, while being chased by Zapp Brannigan on the Nimbus. It should be noted that the course in question is "mini" in name only - in that it isn't a "professional" course. The ball is easily 50' in diameter, the "club" is a canon, the ball return is a black hole, and the entire course covers a full arm of The Milky-way Galaxy.
* The page quote above, from ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' in which they turn the alley 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.

* In an ImprobableBallistics example, Roger Fox from ''ComicStrip/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."
* ''ComicStrip/{{BC}}'' had its fun with golf. Characters have actually been known to make golf swings while hanging by their feet from a tree branch. For a bonus, there's Bizarre And Improbable ''cheating'' when Clumsy Carp balances a submerged golf ball on his nose and raises it out of the water for a friend to hit, in exchange for a share of the winnings. Another time, B.C. (or possibly Thor) somehow wound up, after his swing, with the ball ''balanced on the head of his club''. Consulting the massive rule book, Peter found a rule that "covers it explicitly," and told the unlucky fellow they had to shoot him.

** Upon receiving permission to play through, they proceed to do so with ''artillery.'' "They" [[TheCameo being]] [[Series/DoctorWho the Brigadier and Sergent Benton]]. Yeah.

* ''Anime/BirdieWing'': Every element of golf in this series is unhinged. Its answer to the question of whether you should hit through a tree or around is to literally ''hit through'' the tree - like, the ball hits a branch, snaps it off and is barely slowed down. Another drive passes, in dramatic slow motion, between train carriages. Some drives merit CallingYourAttacks. Then there's the sinister underground golf Mafia with its secret modular course that can replicate any hole, anywhere. Then there's the golf hole on the top of a mesa with no visible access surrounded by a storm-wracked sea seen in a flashback.

* ''Anime/BirdieWing'': Every element of golf in this series is unhinged. Its answer to the question of whether you should hit through a tree or around is to literally ''hit through'' the tree - like, the ball hits a branch, snaps it off and is barely slowed down. Another drive passes, in dramatic slow motion, between train carriages. Some drives merit CallingYourAttacks. Then there's the sinister underground golf Mafia with its secret modular course that can replicate any hole, anywhere...

* 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 the ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack'' cartoon, K's hobby is taking a bucket of balls to his "personal driving range" -- a rooftop in midtown Manhattan.

* One chapter of ''Anime/GhostSweeperMikami'' 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.

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* ''Webcomic/LabBratz'' [[http://labbratz.com/?id=376 did it with a sandhill crane]].