History Main / GolfClubbing

* ''VideoGame/{{Bioshock}}''
** In ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'', a main character is killed with his own golf club... [[spoiler: at his own request, by the brainwashed player character.]]

* In PGWodehouse's ''[[Literature/{{Psmith}} Leave it to Psmith]]'', Lord Emsworth thinks his secretary, Baxter, has gone insane and sends Psmith round to knock some sense into him. Psmith, always the sort to come prepared, takes Freddie Threepwood's golf club with him. (However, since he finds Baxter unconscious, all he does is poke him with it.)

* ''GreenLantern'' foe the Sportsman frequently uses golf clubs as weapons.

* The ''{{Hitman}}'' series

* In ''TheHobbit'', it is said that the game of Golf was invented by hobbits at the Battle of the Green Fields, in which Bullroarer Took scored a decisive blow by knocking off Golfimbul's head with a wooden club for a hundred yards drive into a rabbit hole.

-->--'''''Yosuke''''', {{Peachi}}'s ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' WebComic

* ''MadokaMagica'': This is [[spoiler:Homura]]'s first weapon. She trades up pretty quickly.

-->--'''''Yosuke''''', {{Peachi}}'s ''{{Persona 4}}'' WebComic

* ''SilentHill4'': 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.
* ''DeadRising'': 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 [[BreakableWeapons 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.
* ''{{Halo3}}'' 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 ''HaloReach'', and can be used in Firefight.

* ''{{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.

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series: One of Peach's randomly-selected weapons.

* In ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', there's a golf club available as one of the Demoman's many melee weapons. It's a re-skin of the
[[{{BFS}} Eyelander]], meaning you can in fact [[OffWithHisHead decapitate]] opponents [[CrazyAwesome with a golf club.]]

* In ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', there's a golf club available as one of the Demoman's many melee weapons. It's a re-skin of the [[{{BFS}} Eyelander]], meaning you can in fact [[OffWithHisHead decapitate]] opponents [[CrazyAwesome with a golf club.]]

* ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'': Keiichi gets a golf club in preparation for a fight at one point. [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Said fight was actually a friend asking for help at a baseball game.]]

* Not used, but recommended over a basebal bat by Fiona in ''BurnNotice''

** ''GrandTheftAutoViceCity'': In "Four Iron", Tommy Vercetti is asked to 'persuade' a businessman to do a deal. During the mission he lacks his usual weapons. [[hottip:*:Usually: clever players can work around the restriction]] So he has to get persuasive with a golf club. The club can be used as a melee weapon during the rest of the game.
** ''GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'': Golf clubs can be used as a melee weapon. If CJ knocks someone down, he will then uses a golf swing.

* In ''KingOfTheHill'', 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.

* ''MadokaMagica'': This is [[spoiler:Homura's]] first weapon. She trades up pretty quickly.

* ''SuperSmashBros'' series: One of Peach's randomly-selected weapons.
* ''GrandTheftAuto'' series

** ''GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'': Golf clubs can be used as a melee weapon. If CJ knocks someone down, he will then uses a golf swing.

* ''[[TheDarkKnightSaga Batman Begins]]'': Alfred knocks out a member of the League of Shadows with this.

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

* ''FalloutNewVegas'' has a 9-iron weapon, and it has a special move in VATS called "Fore!", where you [[GroinAttack hit the enemy in the groin.]] This is also the WeaponOfChoice of Driver Nephi, one of the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Fiend]] leaders, who carries a unique driver.

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* ''Left4Dead 2'' provides the page image. ConMenHateGuns... [[MemeticMutation but they don't hate golfclubs]].

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* HomestarRunner: This is the entirety of CGNU's sports program.

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* ''{{Wasabi}}'' is a French-Japanese action comedy. A golf culb is used by the hero (played by JeanReno) in a scene where Yakuza brings him to a "negotiation" on a golf driving range.

* ''MadokaMagica'': This is [[spoiler:Homura's]] first weapon. She trades up pretty quickly.

* A golf club is the murder weapon in the AgathaChristie play [[spoiler:''Spider's Web''.]]

* In ''TeamFortress2'', there's a golf club available as one of the Demoman's many melee weapons. It's a re-skin of the [[{{BFS}} Eyelander]], meaning you can in fact [[OffWithHisHead decapitate]] opponents [[CrazyAwesome with a golf club.]]

* ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': In the first movie, Casey Jones, who is known for using sports equipment as his WeaponOfChoice, uses a driver to good effect against [[TheDragon Tatsu]].

** In ''Bioshock'', a character is killed with his own golf clubs, [[CutscenePowerToTheMax in a cutscene]].