History Main / BizarreAndImprobableGolfGame

* In ''VideoGame/RibbitKing'', 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.

* This happens in the opening of the WoodyWoodpecker short ''The Loose Nut''.

** 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 scottish mentor informs the protagonist that no ''proper'' golfer would wear tartan unless he was a member of a clan with that particular tartan. ''BURN''.

* During WorldWarII, an ObviousRulePatch was supposedly adopted throughout Britain which would allow for a delay without penalty for the players to take cover during air raids, and allowing them to disregard the "play it where it lies" rule if a golf ball should land in a [[BombDisposal bomb crater.]]

* IanFleming supposedly wanted to show that [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Auric Goldfinger]] was truly a CardCarryingVillain by having him and JamesBond play golf. Goldfinger flagrantly cheated, which to a Scot like Fleming is beyond the MoralEventHorizon.
* in ''Film/{{Convict13}}'', Creator/BusterKeaton is a golfer trying to hit the ball out of a lake while standing on a raft...and then diving in for fish to find out which fish swallowed his golf ball.

* in ''Film/{{Convict13}}'', BusterKeaton is a golfer trying to hit the ball out of a lake while standing on a raft...and then diving in for fish to find out which fish swallowed his golf ball.

* An episode of Marty Feldman's sketch show ''Marty'' does the first.

* The last event of a LaffALympics 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.

This trope usually makes a golfer play a ball in a place where nobody in the real world would (extremely close to a dangerous animal like a {{bear|sAreBadNews}} or [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile alligator]] is popular). There are rules that cover this, and usually [[GretzkyHasTheBall the writers are oblivious to them]] (or simply choose to ignore them in the name of hilarity ensuing).

* CharlesAddams 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 play another one."

* in ''Film/Convict13'', BusterKeaton is a golfer trying to hit the ball out of a lake while standing on a raft...and then diving in for fish to find out which fish swallowed his golf ball.

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* The entire second half of "Tee Off, MrBean" 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.

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* ''PennyArcade'' [[http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/5/22/ has a good idea about how to make an improbable golf course.]]

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* CharlesAddams 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."

* 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 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.]]

*** So, he used the NoTrueScotsman fallacy to his advantage? *ducks*

* OlderThanRadio: W.C. Fields created a hilarious golf game parody sketch, first in vaudeville and then in movies.
** Amusingly, thanks to the limitations of performing on stage, this ''didn't even have to involve hitting the ball''. One of his first talkies, ''The Golf Specialist'', adapted this routine, and he gets as far as "Keep your eye on the ball" before something inevitably goes wrong. Again and again. He never does get to hit it.

* Nothing beats Alan Shepard's [[http://youtu.be/1yNIMtagHck Golf on the Moon]] during Apollo 14

This trope usually makes a golfer play a ball in a place where nobody in the real world would (extremely close to a dangerous animal like a [[EverythingsWorseWithBears bear]] or [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile alligator]] is popular). There are rules that cover this, and usually [[GretzkyHasTheBall the writers are oblivious to them]] (or simply choose to ignore them in the name of hilarity ensuing).

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 [[GretzkyHasTheBall the writers are oblivious to them]] (or simply choose to ignore them in the name of hilarity ensuing).

* The subject of all PGWodehouse's golf stories.