History Main / SnootySports

* ''Anime/BirdieWing'' is about the dichotomy between a pair of young teen prodigies at golf. One the rich daughter of two professional golfers who run a multi-million dollar sports equipment company, who is on the junior pro tour, the other is a wrong-side-of-the-tracks underground hustler who uses the money she makes to support a family implied to be illegal immigrants.

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* The Creator/{{BBC}}'s sports quiz/comedy show ''Series/TheyThinkItsAllOver'' made a RunningGag out of this, pretending to be dismissive of British successes in golf or tennis as they didn't involve the ''important'' things, like footballs, at any point.
-->It's August and we go into Wimbledon Fortnight, an opportunity for every man in Britain to remember we're still three weeks away from the start of the football season, and he's got to put up with a lot of tennis first.
* ''Series/HometownChaChaCha'': In episode 13, Hye-jin's posh friends from Seoul pop by for a surprise visit to her rural clinic. They look down on Gongjin and her boyfriend Du-sik (who is dressed like the handyman he is) before inviting them for a round of golf at a nearby country club, an invitation Du-sik accepts because he can tell they're looking down on him. Being a RenaissanceMan who is good at everything he tries, he easily smokes them, and Hye-jin's friends later chatter on about how she has a great boyfriend.
* ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': TheGrandHunt is made so because the stag King Viserys 'hunts' is tied so it can't defend itself or flee when he strikes.
* In ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', the gang has bugged someone's apartment with a baby monitor; when they hear nothing but TV coverage of golf tournaments they think that there must clearly be something wrong with someone who voluntarily watches golf games for hours on end on TV.

* ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley'': In the episode "Election", David Horton, in his role as district councillor, has "generously" got the council to provide Dibley with a public golf course, on the assumption that, as the only posh person in the area, this would basically be his private course. Geraldine threatens him by getting the entire village to start playing golf until he fulfils his campaign promises.

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic recorded "Buckingham Blues" which satirized the British royal family, namely Prince Charles and (then) Princess Diana. The second stanza paints the sport of polo as the sport of snobs: "Chuckie wants to grow up / And be a polo star / And ride his little horsies / All around the backyard." Considering the upkeep on a horse is a money sink, this view is close to the truth.

* TruthInTelevision; A lot of people really hate golf. It's a relatively slow paced sport that, for most of its history, could not be played by certain groups, and to this day is mostly associated with wealthy men. There's also the fact that golf requires a lot of land and a lot of water, making golf a form of ConspicuousConsumption in many parts of the world, such as in the American Southwest where droughts are a common occurrence.
** During drought conditions in much of Europe in 2022, water-use restrictions in southern France specifically exempted golf courses. This led to widespread criticism of golf being a waste of water and good land on a hobby for the wealthy, even to the point of activists sneaking onto courses at night and filling the holes with concrete.

* In much of Europe in the medieval and early modern periods, good hunting grounds were aristocratic property used for TheGrandHunt, so hunting was practically illegal for poor people. There is an [[https://www.sailorinsaddle.com/collections/all-sales-items/products/south-german-hunting-trousse-of-superb-quality-ca-1760?_pos=4&_sid=7f4c083b5&_ss=r 18th-century German hunting sword]] inscribed with a line of poetry on the blade that spells it out:

* In the ''Series/VicarOfDibley'' episode "Election", David Horton, in his role as district councillor, has "generously" got the council to provide Dibley with a public golf course, on the assumption that, as the only posh person in the area, this would basically be his private course. Geraldine threatens him by getting the entire village to start playing golf until he fulfils his campaign promises.

* After Marcus Brigstocke took a break from ''Radio/TheNowShow'' for a skiing holiday, he admitted on his return that this might be in conflict with his left-environmentalisy credentials, but "I'm sorry. I'm posh; I like sliding!"

* In ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'', Nathan is introduced as an antagonistic character in the second season. He's characterized as being largely about business, snootily looking down at the small-town residents of West Covina. The one visible chink in his professional facade is the fact he's obsessed with his water polo career from his Ivy League school, providing a double-whammy of pretentiousness.
* In ''Series/TheGoodPlace'', upper-class Brit Tahani and walking [[LowerClassLout Florida Man]] Jason for an unlikely couple. At one point they go on a secluded retreat, where Tahani teaches Jason croquet saying it combines "both classic aspects of British sport: whimsy and [[BritishStuffiness restraint]]" and goes on to quote UsefulNotes/NevilleChamberlain saying that it's "barely a game." Jason, on the other hand, introduces Tahani to his version of the game: where they put the ball in a wine glass and hit it as far as they can in any direction while yelling.

Compare UpperClassEquestrian (the notion that owning horses is for rich people). They can overlap in cases where UsefulNotes/EquestrianSports are considered for the wealthy. See also TheGrandHunt, another pastime of the upper crust. Equestrian sports and hunting also bring up issues of animal cruelty, which also increases the resentment toward the upper class.

Contrast with any bowling tropes as bowling is a sport largely considered more of a blue collar sport, and low brow. Contrast also with any ball games which are usually available to everyone since they only require balls.

There are many different sports that exist in this world. There are worldwide sensations like Football, Soccer, Hockey, and Baseball, where millions of fans enjoy. Then there are the sports which people who are considered to be of higher standards enjoy, such as Golf, Polo, Racquetball, Fencing, Field Hockey, and Croquet.

** Later, Heero gets into a duel with Dorothy Catalonia at one of their classes. The end result is that he has penetrated her mask with the epee, just barely missing her face. Unlike the young man from the earlier episode, Dorothy seems largely unphased by the close call.

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Compare UpperClassEquestrian (the notion that owning horses is for rich people). They can overlap in cases where UsefulNotes/EquestrianSports are considered for the wealthy. See also TheGrandHunt, another pastime of the upper crust.

* In ''Film/HappyGilmore'', this is the biggest reason why Happy's LoveInterest Virginia (an advertisement executive for the PGA) asks the chairman to not kick out Happy after he is determined to be [[ClusterBleepBomb too obscene]] and [[JerkJock angry]] for broadcast: because Gilmore is a WorkingClassHero (Virginia even uses this exact term), audience ratings and sponsorship offers are going through the roof because people who dismiss golf as a "snob" time slot are tuning in. The chairman relents but asks Virginia to convince Gilmore to tone down his anger or he will be kicked out (a decision [[TheRival Shooter McGavin]] exploits later).

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In "Here Comes the Neighborhood", Token invites several wealthy families to come live in South Park after [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer feeling that he doesn't fit in with the other kids since he's the only rich kid in town]]. The rich kids are seen playing polo and view the things the non-rich kids do like snowball fights as barbaric.

Various other reasons may include them being considered too slow or boring, not being considered a real sport by most of the populace, the players not being very good at it, the ImpossiblyTackyClothes that are often worn (especially in golf), or the rules do not seem to make sense to a non-player. Golf, in particular, meets all these criteria, which is why it has a bad reputation. It's expensive, hence its association with snobby old rich people, and according to many stats and polls, [[https://www.glencorgolf.com/blog/is-golf-the-most-boring-sport-to-watch/ golf is voted most boring]] [[https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-11/chart-of-the-day-boring-sports/9749146?nw=0&r=HtmlFragment sport in many countries]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In "Here Comes the Neighborhood", Token invites several wealthy families to come live in South Park after [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer feeling that he doesn?t fit in with the other kids since he?s the only rich kid in town]]. The rich kids are seen playing polo and view the things the non-rich kids do like snowball fights as barbaric.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE6TheTerribleTrio The Terrible Trio]]", [[MillionairePlayboy rich playboy]] Bruce Wayne is shown to be quite proficient at skeet shooting, and entertains his rich guests with it at a party. This is especially notable given his own hatred for guns as Batman.

* The Creator/{{BBC}}'s sports quiz/comedy show ''Series/TheyThinkItsAllOver'' made a RunningGag out of this, pretending to be dismissive of British successes in golf or tennis as they didn't involve the ''important'' things, like footballs, at any point.
-->It's August and we go into Wimbledon Fortnight, an opportunity for every man in Britain to remember we're still three weeks away from the start of the football season, and he's got to put up with a lot of tennis first.