History Main / GolfClubbing

* Before the Scots turned it into a worldwide sport, golf was in fact, an execution method used by the Manchus...simply replace the golf balls with the heads of offenders.

** In a later episode, Dale gives Hank a set of golf clubs he got at a police auction. They are very nice golf clubs, but one of them -- neither of the pair knows which -- was used to murder someone. Hank does not want to use that particular club, but he's still willing to roll the dice. They are ''very'' nice golf clubs.

** In a later episode, Dale gives Hank a set of golf clubs he got at a police auction. They are very nice golf clubs, but one of them was used to murder someone. Hank does not want to use that particular club, but he's still willing to roll the dice. They are ''very'' nice golf clubs.

* In ''Series/TheSopranos'' episode "[[Recap/TheSopranosS3E5AnotherToothpick Another Toothpick]]", "Mustang" Sally cracks a man's head with a putter for talking to his girlfriend. Of course, because the man he did this to belonged to a mob, Sally gets a bullet to the head shortly thereafter.

* In ''Fanfic/PanemReborn'' to tie in with the country club arena, the 105th Hunger Games cornucopia weapons are reinforced golf clubs with sharpened ends. Most of the tributes use it to beat their opponents to death, while Heffer uses the end of the club to slit the throats of all four Careers after driving his golf cart underneath.

* In ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2', the Golf Club is a melee weapon exclusive to [[DownloadableContent a single official campaign]] and [[GameMod custom campaigns]].

* In''Series/TheSopranos'', "Mustang" Sally cracks a man's head with a putter for talking to his girlfriend. Of course, because the man he did this to belonged to a mob, Sally gets a bullet to the head shortly thereafter.

* Evoked and made more badass in ''Bollywood/DonTheChaseBeginsAgain'', where you think for a moment that a man is going to be clubbed to death... Before Don kills him by hitting a golf ball right into his face at close range.

* ''Film/MurdersSheSaid'': When Miss Marple spies someone lurking behind the curtain between her room and the next, she grabs a golf club from her bag to confront them.

** In ''VideoGame/BioShock1'', a main character is killed with his own golf club... [[spoiler:at his own request, by the brainwashed player character.]]

* ''VideoGame/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. Killing [[spoiler:Mr. House]] with a golf club completes the "[[VideoGame/{{Bioshock 1}} A Slave Obeys]]" challenge.

** In ''VideoGame/Persona4'', the main character's traditional weaponry is two-handed swords... or, alternatively, golf clubs.
** What the page quote deliberately leaves out is that Yosuke had to put together fighting gear from just the stuff in his possession -- unlike the party of ''VideoGame/Persona3'', there weren't any multimillionaires in the group to supply them with weapons. They ''still'' get arrested.

* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' provides the page image. The Golf Club is exclusive to [[DownloadableContent a single official campaign]] and [[GameMod custom campaigns]], however.

** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheBalladOfGayTony: Roko uses an entire shooting range for improvised torture, by tying someone to a golf cart and having a {{Mook}} drive the poor guy around wherever Roko feels like practicing his swing.

* ''VideoGame/SilentHill4'': Henry can pick up a couple of golf clubs as weapons, they're rather fragile and not prac* In ''Videogame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'', Kyle's weapon is a golf club, though rather than hitting people with it, he uses it to hit golf balls at his enemies.tical to haul around given his limited inventory slots.

* 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.]]

* ''VideoGame/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.

* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'':
** In ''VideoGame/Persona4'', the main character's traditional weaponry is two-handed swords... or, alternatively, golf clubs.
** What the page quote deliberately leaves out is that Yosuke had to put together fighting gear from just the stuff in his possession -- unlike the party of ''VideoGame/Persona3'', there weren't any multimillionaires in the group to supply them with weapons. They ''still'' get arrested.
* ''VideoGame/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 ''VideoGame/HaloReach'', and can be used in Firefight.
* ''VideoGame/BioShock''
** In ''VideoGame/BioShock1'', a main character is killed with his own golf club... [[spoiler:at his own request, by the brainwashed player character.]]
** ''VideoGame/BioShock2'': 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]].\\\
In the multiplayer, a golf club is the signature melee weapon of the Businessman, Buck Raleigh. Also, the "Kill 'em Kindly" mode gives everyone a golf club and limits them to melee only, regardless of their chosen character.

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series: One of Peach's randomly-selected weapons for her forward smash attack.

* In ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline'', the Priest class can be armed with Iron Drivers.
* In ''VideoGame/MadWorld'', Jack can use a golf club as a weapon, including in the Man Golf minigame.
* In ''VideoGame/WanderingHamster'', getting a perfect score in mini-golf course earns Bob a golf club to use as a weapon.

* 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.]]
* This is the signature weapon of Seto in ''VideoGame/FragileDreamsFarewellRuinsOfTheMoon'', although there are better alternatives available. It even shows up on the cover art.
* In ''{{VideoGame/Unturned}}'', golf clubs are fairly common and make a decent weapon with good damage and reach.

* In ''Videogame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'', Kyle's weapon is a golf club, though rather than hitting people with it, he uses it to hit golf balls at his enemies.

* One of the weapons you can find in ''VideoGame/NaughtyBear'' is a golf club. You can thwack bears to near death reliably with it, and its execution is forcing the victim on their face against the ground as Naughty Bear sets up a careful golf swing that uppercuts them in the chin before slamming the club back down on their head, killing them. Also an [[StudioAudience invisible sports commentator and crowd of spectators quietly clap and cheer for Naughty's good form when swinging.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'': during a [[AllJustADream dream episode]] Bob has [[DoAnythingRobot Glitch]] turn into a golf club which he used on Hack and Slash. He made a hole in one.
* In ''WesternAnimation/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.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "The Golf War", [[EnemyMine Mabel and Pacifica]] use putters as rather effective weapons when [[spoiler: the Lilliputtians turn against the both of them.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': In "No Guts, No Glori", Lola knocks Lincoln out with a golf club.
* [[{{Jerkass}} Mr. Cat]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' frequently does this to Quack Quack and Stumpy, especially in the MinigolfEpisode.

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

* After Durant in ''ComicBook/DarkmanVsArmyOfDarkness'' hears from possessed Julie that those with physical traumas are more easily possessed by the demonic Deadites, he tries that out by hitting a captured guard with his golf club.

* ''Film/StarskyAndHutch'': Reese Feldman slaps [[Music/SnoopDogg Huggy Bear]] while he's posing as a caddy, for forgetting the nine iron. Later, Huggy whacks him in the head with it.
-->'''Huggy Bear:''' Found your nine iron, bitch.

* In ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990'', Casey Jones, who is known for using sports equipment as his WeaponOfChoice, uses a driver to good effect against [[TheDragon Tatsu]].
-->'''Casey:''' I'll never call golf a dull game again.

* ''Film/{{Wasabi}}'' is a French-Japanese action comedy. A golf culb is used by the hero (played by Creator/JeanReno) in a scene where Yakuza brings him to a "negotiation" on a golf driving range.
* In ''Film/FunnyGames'', Peter uses a golf club to break George's leg, and Paul later kills the family dog with it.
* ''Film/SuicideKings'': The Denis Leary character uses an iron to severely admonish a minor character, then complains loudly about these damn flimsy plastic shafts.

* In ''Film/The51stState'', Creator/SamuelLJackson's character, [[RatedMForManly El]][[CulturedBadass mo]], manages to [[CurbStompBattle destroy]] a gang of (5?) Skinheads with one of his Golf clubs, apparently without straining himself.
* Evoked and made more badass in Bollywood/DonTheChaseBeginsAgain, where you think for a moment that a man is going to be clubbed to death... Before Don kills him by hitting a golf ball right into his face at close range.
* In ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', Dog raids a pair of small-time drug dealers and tortures the whereabouts of their stash out of them by pelting golf balls at one while using the other's mouth as a tee.

* In the prologue of ''Film/TheButchers'', young Simon cracks his abusive father over the head with a gold club, then keeps whacking him once he is on the ground.
* In ''Film/WhenEvilCalls'', Samantha beats Daniel's undead stepfather to death with a golf club.

* In ''Film/SixtyEightKill'', Chip takes a golf club from the motel office when he goes looking for payback. However, it is taken off him and used by Amy to knock him out, and later by Monica to torture him.

* In Creator/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.)

* In the ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode "Lead" a child molester is beaten to death with a golf club.

* ''Series/MajorCrimes'': The BodyOfTheWeek in "All In" is found at the bottom of a water hazard on a golf course, his head having been beaten in with with one of his golf clubs.
* ''Series/TheGlades'': The VictimOfTheWeek in "Breaking 80" was done in by a blow to the head with a nine iron.
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': In S11 Ep 19, "Crescent City" [=McGee=] collects the wrong end of this from a perpetrator's father.
* ''Series/CSICyber'': The VictimOfTheWeek in "Why-Fi" is killed when an intruder snatches a golf club off him and beats him to death. Because he was using a game system to improve his swing at the time, the murder is caught on a motion-capture video.
* In the ''Series/CSIMiami'' episode "Blown Away", a flashback shows that the VictimOfTheWeek was killed this way--she walked in on her assailants robbing her house and while one distracted her, the other picked up a golf club and bashed her head in. [[note]] making this moment especially unnerving is that the killer was played by none other than Creator/JamieBamber, who has spent much of his career playing varying versions of a NiceGuy--he had ''just'' completed a 2-year run as a by-the-book cop on ''Series/LawAndOrderUK''[[/note]]

* ''Series/MurderSheWrote'': The VictimOfTheWeek in "How to Make a Killing Without Really Trying" is a stockbroker who gets brained with his own putter.
* ''Series/{{Amen}}'': A fantasy sequence shows Ernie preparing to kill his son-in-law Rueben this way after the latter interrupts a liaison.
* ''Series/NewTricks'': The VictimOfTheWeek in "Good Work Rewarded" was 10 year old boy killed with a golf club on a golf course.
* ''Series/FatherBrown'': In "Flower of the Fairway", the first VictimOfTheWeek is cracked over the head with a five iron and then has his body dumped in the water trap.
* ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' used a robot-driven golf club to explode cigarette lighters.