History Main / BizarreAndImprobableGolfGame

* One update for ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' introduces the Golfer [=NPC=], who specializes in selling golf-related items, meaning that yes, it's possible to make your very own crazy golf course, with feats like putting the ball into a hole at the bottom of a {{Hellavator}}.

* ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'' had one of these with the Taurus Zodiarts. Long story short, Taurus is a disciplinarian gone mad who challenges students to contests (even allowing them to pick the contest) and, if he wins, forces them to obey the strictest of rules. After most of the heroes (including Fourze) fall victim to his powers, [[SixthRanger Kamen Rider Meteor]] steps up and challenges Taurus to ''his'' specialty: golf. Yes, a game of golf between a minotaur monster and a HenshinHero. And neither of them uses actual golf clubs, instead preferring their {{Simple Sta|ff}}ves.

** In another story, Donald wants to practice golf and force his nephews to work as his caddies until he considers his game good enough. Wanting to get out of this, they tricked Donald into thinking he can make a hole-in-one whenever he wants. After they leave, he decides to charge one dollar from each person to let them see him making a hole-in-one. Gladstone Gander shows up and, not believing Donald can really make it, challenges him to a bet. If Donald makes a hole-in-one, Gladstone will give him a dollar; if Donald fails, he'll give Gladstone ''ten'' dollars. Donald accepts the bet and places a ten-dollar-bill inside the pot. Upon being told that Donald won't accept the bet until Gladstone adds his dollar to the pot, Gladstone leaves to find a dollar. Afterwards, Donald tries and fails to make a hole-in-one so he asks for his nephews' help. When Gladstone arrives with a dollar, Donald makes his attempt and the ball bounces off several places including an earthquake that takes place after Donald hits the ball. The ball eventually gets inside the hole [[HoistByHisOwnPetard but comes out after bouncing off the ball that his nephews placed in there to trick Gladstone]].

** 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.

* 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."

-->''They '''had''' to call it 'golf'. ''''Insanity'''' was already taken.''

* Both happen in the final game in Swedish movie ''Film/TheUnwillingGolfer''. 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 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''.
* ''Film/WelcomeToMooseport'' ex-presdient Monroe Cole 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 his mayoral candidate and town plummer Handy Harrison to a game of golf, but Cole's demanding ex-wife Charlotte forces the agents out of hiding, and he discovers that without their help he's completely outmatched.]]

* in ''Film/{{Convict 13}}'', 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.

* The EstablishingCharacterMoment of Cuthbert Ware-Armitage in ''[[Film/ThoseMagnificentMenInTheirFlyingMachines Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies]]'' has him cheat at golf twice - once by distracting his opponent during his drive, and once by planting an extra ball on the fairway rather than bothering to look for where his ball actually landed - followed by delight at his father's recent demise because it means that he just inherited the family estate.

* Jesus and Moses come down to earth to play a round of golf. At the seventh hole there is a water hazard. Jesus takes out a 7-iron and addresses the ball. Moses says, "You can't hit that ball over that water with a 7-iron." Jesus replies, "If Arnold Palmer can do it, I can do it." Jesus hits the ball and it goes into the lake. He turns to Moses and asks, "Um... can you help me get me ball?" Grudgingly, Moses waves his arms apart, the waters separate, and Jesus goes into get his ball. He sizes the shot up again, and Moses sputters "You cannot hit that ball over the water with a 7-iron!" Jesus says, "If Arnold Palmer can do it, I can do it." Jesus hits and the ball again goes into the water. Moses says, "You're on your own on this." So Jesus walks on top of the water and dips his club into the water searching for his ball. Two other duffers pass by and see this incredible sight of a man on top of the lake. One of them asks "Who does he think he is? Jesus Christ?" Moses sputters "No... he thinks he's Arnold Palmer!"

On the second hole, he again lands it on the green for a par, but this time misses the putt by two inches and mutters, "God damn it, I missed." The priest warns him that if he again takes the Lord's name in vain, a bolt of lightning will fall from the cloudless skies and kill him; the golfer apologizes and putts the ball in, landing a bogey.\\

* According to ''Death's Domain: A Literature/{{Discworld}} Mapp'', Death's golf course is ''designed'' to have bizarre and improbable effects, since it's filled with dimensional instabilities, folds in space-time and gravitational anomalies, all in an effort to counteract TheGrimReaper's AwesomenessByAnalysis which prevents him from understanding that getting a small ball to go exactly where you want is ''supposed'' to be difficult. It also has a windmill, the symbol of crazy golf everywhere. It grinds the balls very finely. The accompanying illustration shows Death in his normal robes, but Albert, caddying, sports the traditional tartan plus-fours and silly hat.

* In the ''Fanfic/TriptychContinuum'' short piece [[Recap/TriptychContinuumAGoodTrotSpoiled A Good Trot, Spoiled]], this trope is just about the whole of the sport -- purposefully. Minotaurs have designed golf to be ''deliberately'' infuriating, with every inch of the course enchanted to produce the most outlandish and rage-inducing results each time a player takes a swing -- because the goal is to work out stress by sending the player into a state where they finally ''express'' all that anger within the padded pit which makes up the nineteenth hole. Basically, take Bethpage's Black Course, throw in a little TPC Sawgrass, add in the fine manipulations allowed by earth pony, pegasus, and unicorn magic, then dial everything UpToEleven. This results in a course where your putt swerved right because microridges in the soil told it to, the rough is hidden by illusion, and the wind does in fact hate you -- with every countering element steadily growing stronger as you move towards the end. Celestia silently sums it all up somewhere around the sixteenth hole.

* 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.

* ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'' had one of these with the Taurus Zodiarts. Long story short, Taurus is a disciplinarian gone mad who challenges students to contests (even allowing them to pick the contest) and, if he wins, forces them to obey the strictest of rules. After most of the heroes (including Fourze) fall victim to his powers, [[SixthRanger Kamen Rider Meteor]] steps up and challenges Taurus to ''his'' specialty: golf. Yes, a game of golf between a minotaur monster and a HenshinHero. And neither of them uses actual golf clubs, instead preferring their [[SimpleStaff Simple Staves]].

* ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'' had one of these with the Taurus Zodiarts. Long story short, Taurus is a disciplinarian gone mad who challenges students to contests (even allowing them to pick the contest) and, if he wins, forces them to obey the strictest of rules. After most of the heroes (including Fourze) fall victim to his powers, [[SixthRanger Kamen Rider Meteor]] steps up and challenges Taurus to ''his'' specialty: golf. Yes, a game of golf between a [[ALoadOfBull minotaur monster]] and a HenshinHero. And neither of them uses actual golf clubs, instead preferring their [[SimpleStaff Simple Staves]].

* A particularly memorable one in Creator/JohnMFord[='=]s Franchise/StarTrek novel ''Literature/HowMuchForJustThePlanet''

* In a brief scene in one of the ''Manga/DragonBallZ'' movies, Goten is hit by a golf ball while retrieving a Dragon Ball from a golf course. Angry about the hit, he proceeds to take revenge by dropping the ball into a nearby hole... cut to the old man who was playing being completely elated at getting his first hole-in-one.

* ''VideoGame/WhatTheGolf?'' sets out to be this, especially in the levels where your goal is not to get the golf ball to the flag, but the club, or even the arrow that shows you the direction and strength of your shot. Also, the flags will move away from your ball sometimes.

* ''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, 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. All in the space of ''five minutes''.

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* A Chinese Disney comic featured DonaldDuck finding Gladstone Gander's hat (which has a FourLeafClover 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).

* ''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, 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.. All in the space of ''five minutes''.

* ''Film/HappyGilmore'' did both. Perhaps one of the most egregious examples. First, Shooter [=McGavin=] has to hit his ball off of [[TheBigGuy Mr. Larson's]] foot, then a tower falls into the green in front of Happy's ball. Instead of hitting it around the tower, Happy hits the fallen tower's pieces, which just so happen to put the ball in the hole. All in the space of ''five minutes''.

* A joke features a person playing a covert, forbidden game of golf (most commonly, a priest skipping out on Mass to hit the links or a rabbi on Saturday) and making eighteen holes-in-one. The punchline is God, in reply to an incredulous angel, shrugging and asking, "[[ThePunishmentIsTheCrime Who's he gonna tell?]]"

* Another joke: Jesus, Moses and an old man are playing golf. Moses hits his ball and it lands in the water. He walks out to it, touches the water with his club and the water parts, allowing him to play through for a birdie. Jesus hits his ball and it lands ON the water. He walks on the water to it and plays through for a birdie as well. The old man hits his ball and it sails up into the air, hits a hawk then falls into a tree, hits a squirrel and ricochets into a neighboring yard where a dog catches it in his mouth, runs across the fairway and drops it on the green where it rolls into the hole for a "Hole in One". Moses looks at Jesus and says: "I hate playing with your Dad".
* One more: A man playing with his girlfriend badly slices on the 13th and ends up behind a barn. He complains that he will have to lay one off on the runway before playing towards the pin. "Not so," says the girl, "I'll open the front and back doors of the barn, and you can play right through it!" He agrees, but his shot hits her between the eyes as she stands by the open door, killing her. Ten years later, the man is married, and they're playing on the same course, slices it again on the 13th and ends up in the same spot behind the same barn. He complains that he will have to lay one off on the runway before playing towards the pin. "Not so," says his bride, "I'll open the front and back doors of the barn, and you can play right through it!" "NO!" says he. "I can't do that!! Last time I did that, I took an eight!"
* Another joke: A golfer gets a round in with his buddy. On the first hole, he slices right into the woods and finds his ball trapped behind some trees. The next hole, he slices it and it goes straight into a bunker, buried until he could barely see it. The third hole, he slices it right into a pond. The golfer says, "I should just drown myself to save the embarrassment." His buddy says, "You think you can keep your head down long enough?"
* Jesus and Moses come down to earth to play a round of golf. At the seventh hole there is a water hazard. Jesus takes out a 7-iron and addresses the ball. Moses says, "You can't hit that ball over that water with a 7-iron." Jesus replies, "If Arnold Palmer can do it, I can do it." Jesus hits the ball and it goes into the lake. He turns to Moses and asks, "Um...can you help me get me ball?" Grudgingly, Moses waves his arms apart, the waters separate, and Jesus goes into get his ball. He sizes the shot up again, and Moses sputters "You cannot hit that ball over the water with a 7-iron!" Jesus says, "If Arnold Palmer can do it, I can do it." Jesus hits and the ball again goes into the water. Moses says, "You're on your own on this." So Jesus walks on top of the water and dips his club into the water searching for his ball. Two other duffers pass by and see this incredible sight of a man on top of the lake. One of them asks "Who does he think he is? Jesus Christ?" Moses sputters "No...he thinks he's Arnold Palmer!"
* A man is going golfing with a priest as his caddie. On the first hole, he lands it on the green for a par, but misses the putt by three inches and mutters, "God damn it, I missed." The priest reprimands him for taking Lord's name in vain; the golfer apologizes and putts the ball in, landing a bogey. On the second hole, he again lands it on the green for a par, but this time misses the putt by two inches and mutters, "God damn it, I missed." The priest warns him that if he again takes the Lord's name in vain, a bolt of lightning will fall from the cloudless skies and kill him; the golfer apologizes and putts the ball in, landing a bogey. [[RuleOfThree On the third whole, he yet again lands it on the green for a par,]] and this time misses the putt by one inch and mutters, "God damn it, I missed." At this point, a bolt of lightning falls from the cloudless skies and [[BaitAndSwitch kills the priest]]. The golfer is horrified (and horribly confused), until from the heavens a voice emerges: "God damn it, I missed."

* In one ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' 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.

%%* Pretty much any time the sport appeared on ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', it was like this.

* Then there's the story of the golfer whose shot [[http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/blog/devil_ball_golf/post/Golfer-s-swing-sparks-25-acre-California-blaze?urn=golf-266447 started a wildfire.]]

* There is a golf course that [[http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/animals/australias-shark-infested-golf-course.aspx has sharks.]] [[UsefulNotes/AustralianWildlife It is, naturally, located in Australia.]]

* ''What the Golf?'' sets out to be this, especially in the levels where your goal is not to get the golf ball to the flag, but the club, or even the arrow that shows you the direction and strength of your shot. Also, the flags will move away from your ball sometimes.

* ''Series/Chucklevision'' had three of these: "Goofy Golfers" from Series 4, "Cousins at War" from Series 13, and "Driving Ambition" from Series 19.

* Rory McIlroy had a shot [[http://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/rory-mcilroy-makes-par-tour-championship-after-drive-lands-spectators-pocket bounce off a tree and land in a spectator's pocket.]] Play it where it lies?

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill''

* The page quote above, from ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' in which they turn the ally 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.
%%* The ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Put that Putter Away" is a perfect example of this.

* ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'' Golf, unsurprisingly, culminates in him trying to win a golf game against Chris. The game ends with Dan winning because the course was filled with birdseed, everyone was attacked by birds, and one carried Chris' ball away. Err...[[ItMakesSenseInContext That doesn't make much sense, does it...?]]

* 'Film/WelcomeToMooseport'' ex-presdient Monroe Cole 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 his mayoral candidate and town plummer Handy Harrison to a game of golf, but Cole's demanding ex-wife Charlotte forces the agents out of hiding, and he discovers that without their help he's completely outmatched.]]