The Peanuts Band has embraced golf throughout the strip’s history, with the game being mentioned as early as 1951 and as late as 1999. Therefore, golf has spanned basically the entirety of peanuts Publication. At first, like learning any new skill, the Peanuts Gang was terrible at golf, and it just amounted to all of them screaming at each other. Fortunately for them, they fared much better, with the exception of Snoopy.
The inclusion of golf in Peanuts Is not just chance or randomly chosen game. Charles Schulz was a huge fan of golf and even played on his high school golf team as well his entire life. As a result, he was able to mine both his love for and frustration with the game for material in his comic strips. From Snoopy’s temper tantrums on the golf course to Lucy’s unique way of playing, golf has been a sporty and funny storyline for Peanuts which held a special place in Charles Schultz’s heart.
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“golf balls”
July 22, 1994
Snoopy created yet another persona, his world famous golf pro alter ego with a uniform of a cap and a golf club signaling when in character. He likes to pretend he’s in the Masters golf tournament, one of the biggest professional golf competitions. Something that probably doesn’t happen at the Masters is to have a bunch of golf balls raining down on you after you put a golf ball in the hole. so, This is exactly what happens to Snoopy, so his reality doesn’t exactly feed his imagination.
While Snoopy may try to act cool, calm and collected, that doesn’t mean he won’t occasionally get into some Charlie Brown-esque situations, like a lot of golf balls cascading down on him. It doesn’t take an expert in the history of golf to deduce that what happens to Snoopy in this comic has never happened to any players in the Masters.
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“The gorilla is loose”
December 4, 1989
Despite an owner who tries his best to be nice and stay calm, Snoopy doesn’t try to follow suit. He loses his cool from time to time, with his time on the golf course being a likely place to see the pup having a tantrum. When Charlie Brown caddies for Snoopy, he gets an up close and personal view of Snoopy’s temper coming out, which Snoopy likes to refer to as the “Gorilla being loose.”
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There aren’t too many things Snoopy takes super seriously, but golf is apparently one. Tennis has John McEnroe and golf has Snoopy, at least in these Peanuts Universe. Snoopy may not seem like the most athletic type, mostly because he’s a pretty lazy beagle, but he’s actually quite the sportsman, he sportsdog. He is obviously passionate about golf based on the comic strip, as well as participating in the Charlie Brown baseball team, and playing hockey against Woodstock, in addition to several other sports.
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“There is no body checking in golf”
March 10, 1974
Lucy can be competitive and only downright aggressive when she wants to be. Her love of contact sports is nowhere more evident than in this comic strip. Charlie Brown, ready to put his golf ball, finds himself tackled by Lucy out of nowhere, prompting the poor kid to accuse her that golf doesn’t have body checking. For those who don’t know, body checking in sports is when a player uses their body to stop the progress of an opposing player, which is usually used in hockey.
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While Lucy’s body control may be completely against the rules in golf, she succeeds in thwarting Charlie Brown’s progress in the game. It’s funny that Lucy’s competitiveness is on full throttle in golf, but it never manages to make much of an appearance in baseball, the game she plays much more often.
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“Caddies shouldn’t try to be funny”
May 11, 1990
Snoopy loves Charlie Brown; He is his master after all. However, this does not mean that Snoopy likes Charlie Brown’s jokes. In fact, he rarely if ever laughs at Charlie Brown’s jokes, He usually just laughs at Charlie Brown himself. Some of his jokes made Snoopy downright angry, with one memorable incident when Snoopy threw his dinner plate at poor Charlie Brown just for trying to be funny.
Luckily for Charlie Brown, Snoopy doesn’t think Caddies should joke in this comic strip, but at least he doesn’t throw his golf club at him. While Snoopy may not appreciate Charlie Brown’s golf-centric quip, any golf lover out there will crack a smile at what the round-headed kid, as Snoopy likes to call him, comes up with. At least Charlie Brown doesn’t poke fun at Snoopy’s lack of golf excellence, and settle for an innocent pun instead.
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“Resigning player must remove all clubs from trees”
April 18, 1999
While many claim that Charlie Brown is not good at anything, he is, interestingly enough, quite good at golf, much like Charles Schultz himself. Charlie Brown, therefore, serves as Snoopy’s caddy and golf mentor, helping the struggling canine with his abysmal golf skills. Snoopy’s creamy golf playing (understandably) makes him want to quit the game once and for all, having finally had enough of the bad scores and terrible play.
Thinking that golf’s retirement should be official, Charlie Brown reads a laundry list of things to do with golf. The most important of these is to remove the many golf clubs that Snoopy has intertwined with the trees. Only Snoopy knows whether the trees are filled with golf clubs because he throws his clubs in anger, or because he’s so bad at golf that his clubs slip off his paws and land around the trees. But chances are the golf clubs are around the trees for both reasons.
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“I follow your voice!”
June 20, 1977
Peanuts Usually like to focus on a child’s perspective rather than on adults. As a result, there are quite a few mature characters in Peanuts Which are never seen but are mentioned or are letters in the pass. For example, Mrs. Nelson and Mrs. Bartley are two women with a fierce golf rivalry, dragging Peppermint Patty and Marcy into it.
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Peppermint Patty with the two ladies is a little easier than poor Marcy, who is stuck with Mrs. Bartley’s clunky and numerous golf clubs in her extremely heavy and cumbersome bag. It’s easy for Peppermint Patty to be up and ready to go while Marcy is literally crawling under the weight of Mrs. Bartley’s golf club bags. While caddying can be an enjoyable job for Peppermint Patty, Marcy is not so lucky, eventually quitting when Mrs. Bartley climbs a tree to tackle her rival, all too much for Marcy.
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“I’m a scratch golfer”
February 26, 1991
A scratch golfer typically refers to a really good golfer who can finish a round with a par or better score. Snoopy, on the other hand, being the unique and idiosyncratic individual that he is, gives Scratch Golfer his own definition. Rather than stick to the actual definition of the golf term, Snoopy instead designates the scratch in “scratch golfer” to mean he just scratches out all his bad scores. In other words, Snoopy cheats at golf.
If everyone only counted their good scores, everyone would be a scratch golfer, not Snoopy’s meaning of it. Snoopy often likes to do things his own way, so why should golf be any different? Often looking at the world through a unique lens, If Snoopy is going to play golf, he figures he should play in a way that fits his world famous golf pro persona.
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“Here’s what I want you to tell them”
August 17, 1986
Snoopy can be a free spirit, which can sometimes cause some problems. For example, Snoopy likes to drive fast and in his own ways, which unsurprisingly can be a bit dangerous, even if it’s just on a golf course. His bad driving results in Woodstock and he is pushed out of the golf cart and onto the ground while the cart gets stuck in a tree.
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Snoopy, thinking on his feet, thinks about what Woodstock can tell the pro shop about his little accident. Not only is Snoopy bad at golf, but now there’s proof that he’s also bad at driving. How a beagle got a golf cart stuck in a tree is beyond anyone’s guess, except for maybe a physics professor. Regardless, it seems to be a safety hazard for Snoopy to do anything related to golf, especially when the double trouble of Woodstock and Snoopy come together.
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“You are in danger”
July 1, 1977
Marcy catches a hard break when she becomes a caddy for Mrs. Bartley, but the upside is that she and Peppermint Patty get some pocket money as a result of their hard work. Unfortunately for the pair, they run into an obstacle when they run into the ol’ Caddymaster. Things don’t get off to a great start. When they first meet, the caddymaster is annoyed that Marcy and Peppermint Patty are the new caddies just because they are girls, angering Peppermint Patty immensely.
Things don’t get much better between them and the Caddymaster when the girls find out that the Caddymaster gets half of their wages. While hazards on a golf course typically refer to things that could hinder a player’s score like bodies of water, Marcie points out that the caddymaster is, for them, a hazard.
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“wind speed”
July 9, 1983
It is common for golfers to pull some grass from the ground and throw it in the air to measure the wind speed. Snoopy, being the world famous golf pro after all, does too, with his buddy Woodstock. Although this is Snoopy, things are reliably not perfect, as seen when Snoopy throws the grass into the air and turns to see that it has fallen over Woodstock.
Snoopy might know more about the wind, but Woodstock would likely think it wasn’t worth it. Everyone expects to get a little rough playing sports, but it’s usually the one actually playing, not an innocent bystander. Woodstock is a good caddy for Snoopy, no doubt standing by even when he gets a face full of grass. Additionally, Woodstock helped Snoopy practice for the Masters, being the constant duty buddy. Given how many Peanuts Strips revolve around Snoopy being bad at GolfThe fact that Woodstock sticks by him is a testament to what great friends they are.