7/22/10
The Ghost of Earl Woods: I want to find out what your thinking was. I want to find out what your feelings are. Did you learn anything?
Tiger: No.
Kemper: No.
Torrey: No.
Brimley McMoustache: No. Hey, pull my finger!
Gil: No. Which way to the bar?
Carl: HRONK!
Nike Executive: Yes! I learned it’s more profitable to put dead celebrities in my commercial because I don’t have to pay them.
The Ghost of Earl Woods: OK, fine. I’ll just go back to spinning in my grave.
7/23/10
I imagine some of you like golf. I can see how it would be fun to play, but when it comes on TV or people start talking about it, I pretty much just space out.
Here’s how to make it a sport I’d care about: First guy to finish 18 holes wins. Everyone starts the course at the same time. No caddies. Full contact. Oh and fans can scream all they want, like they do in nearly every other sport. That would be awesome, wouldn’t it? And it’s bound to happen right around the same time this comic gets interesting again.
What’s worse than hearing co-workers yammering on about their latest golf adventure? Reading about it in Gil Thorpe.
Could Kaz at least have the decency to pee in the sand traps.
Comment by bevo — July 23, 2010 @ 4:25 am
He’s shining in stroke-play. Meanwhile, back at the golf course………….
Comment by Knoxy — July 23, 2010 @ 5:27 am
7/22 P3….”Look eye, always look eye..”
Comment by Knoxy — July 23, 2010 @ 5:38 am
Gil get aquainted with Mr. Peake, at least until he realizes that there aren’t any beers in that bag he carries his airhorn around in.
Mr. Peake: “Kemper, sometimes he disappoints me. He’s not really my son you know. When his father was killed I took him in. I took him with me on the road because I needed a smiling face to help me close oil leases. Hey Kemper! You’re just a bastard in a basket and don’t you forget it!”
Comment by DieClambakeDie — July 23, 2010 @ 6:27 am
7/22 P3 “Look eyes, always look eyes”
Comment by Knoxy — July 23, 2010 @ 8:04 am
“Shining” at 5 over after 17? That’s not even good enough to win the 2-2-2 in the Wed. senior game at my local course. Hope this kid is better looking than he’s drawn, ’cause he ain’t making it as a golfer.
Comment by Dr. Eat More Cheese and Drink More Pabst [aka: Gil's Dietician] — July 23, 2010 @ 8:34 am
Who stops at the 17th hole to go to a stupid summer golf camp. Is this the Twin Oaks Hole A Day golf tournament. This whole story line is smelling funny and it isn’t just Gil’s breath. I’d say the first graders at Milo T Farnsworth Elementry are writing this story line but they’re much more advanced then that.
Comment by Mr. Ray — July 23, 2010 @ 9:17 am
You know what this story line needs? A hobo golfer to trounce Klemperer over a few rounds (of golf)!
Ho-bo golf! Ho-bo golf!
Of course, Torrid will fall in love with Hobo Golfer, creating a Romeo/Juliet summer of mush.
Like the Larkins, the Peakes will have to downsize (or Mr. Peakes will be killed by Gil/Kaz/Brimley) and Torrid/Klemperer will end up at Milford High. Uggh.
Comment by milfordian — July 23, 2010 @ 10:36 am
Ok, I wasn’t sure what a stroke play tournament was so I looked it up. I thought it would be some kind of unusual scoring system used for junior golf but it turns out it is the normal scoring system for 99% of all golf tournaments where the person with the lowest total score wins. Why mention what kind of scoring systme is being used unless it is something out of the ordinary like match play. Will somebody in Rube’s workplace kick him in the a$$ for me everytime he does something like this.
Comment by DieClambakeDie — July 23, 2010 @ 10:39 am
7/23 P3 Matt the Hatt sighting! He must be covering the stroke play tournament for prep spotlight.
Comment by DieClambakeDie — July 23, 2010 @ 10:41 am
I don’t play golf but I know concentration is key. Sometime soon a cranky golfer from a nearby hole is gonna come over and coldcock that sunovabiscuit. This ‘storyline’ is so HRONK!
Comment by semperfi4evr — July 23, 2010 @ 11:09 am
#8– Father Patton may mention “stroke play” because in club tournaments, match play is more customary. Pro golf is pretty much all stroke play, and that’s all most of us see. But I have to agree that a comic strip about golf has to be one of the dullest ideas in the history of drawing– I’m looking for Matt the Hatt myself, and hoping the kid in the tree will turn up.
Comment by vaganova — July 23, 2010 @ 2:55 pm
they need torrey to get pregnant by pizza guy then have cat fight with cassie to save this story
Comment by mr120zcan — July 23, 2010 @ 3:11 pm
12Ozcan may be on the right track. I will bet on Cassie in that particular catfight.
TWiM readers are a canny lot, probably all have seen this. It not, a link to something wonderful, “Robin Williams on Golf.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qPrR49qsDc
Comment by vaganova — July 23, 2010 @ 5:13 pm
Yay! A golf story! Been playing for 32 years, and we all know how hard it is, no matter how long you’ve been playing. You never completely master it. 5 over after 17 in high school is pretty good, #5. He’s breaking 80 already. When I was his age, I shot 52-50 and failed to make my hs golf team. Too raw. Following summer I made a hole-in-one. My best score: 6-over 78. I played with many seniors with my dad when he retired. Maybe 2 of em could break 80. Most couldnt break 100.
Comment by Rob — July 23, 2010 @ 6:20 pm
In the role of Carl Peake: Dr. Phil.
I’m hating these characters more than I’ve ever hated anyone in Gil Thorp. There is not one redeeming quality in this dickish family. We’re going to find out the reason they’re dicks is because Mrs. Peake ran off with Big Ray.
I know nothing about golf. When my husband talks about it, I’m like you Jason, I totally zone out. Okay, my hsband just explained stroke play and I’m disappointed that t’s not what I thought it was, although he said that the Peakes and Gil should have a foursome.
Comment by Regina — July 23, 2010 @ 7:05 pm
ah, Regina, join up in the movement to have have golf courses converted to parks and cemeteries… Golf, despite its noble origins on the windswept links of Scotland, has become the ultimate emblem of American waste…
If it helps at all, know that stroke play is more properly known as medal play. Wishing you a medal…
Comment by vaganova — July 23, 2010 @ 7:31 pm
how did it go to a benefit teaching kids to all of a sudden a golf tournament at 17th hole when kemper just back from his sports psyche 5 over par. im losing my mind
Comment by mr120zcan — July 24, 2010 @ 7:56 am
#17 no, you are not losing your mind … this is summer Gil Thorp nutso chit
Even nuttier than usual.
Comment by Gil'sBarber — July 24, 2010 @ 6:44 pm
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