How to Play Golf

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)
*Narrator (voiced by Fred Shields)
==Censorship==
A scene where Goofy mimes shooting himself with his finger and somehow ends up actually shooting a bullet out of it after missing a putt is often edited out in TV showings, including on The Ink and Paint Club.
==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
*Donald Duck Presents, episode #22
*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".
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== References ==
* "Reviews of the New Films." Film Daily. 5/10/44. p13.
fr:Le Golf
Category:Goofy shorts
Category:Films featuring Sports
Category:Animated shorts
Category:1944 shorts