How to Play Golf

How to Play Golf
Directed by	Jack Kinney
Produced by	Walt Disney
Starring	Pinto Colvig Fred Shields
Studio(s)	Walt Disney Productions
Distributor	RKO Radio Pictures
Released	March 10, 1944
Language	English
Preceded by	How to Be a Sailor
Followed by	How to Play Football

How to Play Golf is a 1944 Goofy cartoon directed by Jack Kinney.

Plot

An analysis of the game of golf, the Goofy way.

Characters

• Goofy (voiced by Pinto Colvig)

Censorship

A scene where Goofy mimes shooting himself with his finger and somehow ends up actually shooting a bullet out of it is often edited out in TV showings.

Notes

• When this short was released, The Film Daily called it "highly hilarious", and gave the following review:

"This, another of Walt Disney's Technicolor cartoons featuring the Goof, is a howl. While the narrator explains how properly to play golf, the Goof attempts to demonstrate. Naturally he does everything wrong, with superb results from a comedy point of view. The technique and animation are noteworthy indeed. Mark this down as a topflight booking of its kind."

Releases

Television

• Disneyland, episode #3.6: "The Goofy Cavalcade of Sports"
• Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, episode #10.23: "In Shape with Von Drake"
• The Mouse Factory, episode #1.17: "Sports"
• Good Morning, Mickey, episode #60
• Mickey's Mouse Tracks, episode #53
• Donald's Quack Attack, episode #38
• The Ink and Paint Club, episode #1.35: "More Sports Goofy"
• Have a Laugh!, episode #60

Home video

• Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Volume 4 - Sport Goofy (VHS/laserdisc)
• Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Goofy (DVD)

Have a Laugh! changes

The following scenes were cut from the short version due to time constraints:

• The entire first third of the cartoon, with Goofy choosing a club, teeing up the ball, and learning to swing; it opens with Goofy hitting the golf ball to the hole in preparation for the putt.
• Part of Goofy sizing up the elements in preparation for the putt with a bomb sight, while the narrator mentions "drift indication, lay of the land, [and] trajectory angle".
• Goofy licking the tip of his pencil as part of his "mental calculation".
• Goofy pretending to shoot himself with his finger over missing the putt.
• Goofy incorrectly hitting the ball so that it lands in the rough, where he learns to "always play the ball where it lies".
• Goofy's encounter with a lawn sprinkler as he tries to hit the golf ball from off of it.
• The chase with the bull is shortened considerably; it cuts from the run-in with the number 7 flag to Goofy, the stick figure and the bull all arriving at "the 19th hole".

Gallery

"Always keep your eye on the ball."

♫ "Should auld acquaintance be forgot..." ♫
♫ "In days of auld lang syne!" ♫

References

• "Reviews of the New Films." Film Daily. 5/10/44. p13.

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