Are you going to be stuck in an 18 hole foursome this weekend with a notorious jack-off who takes the game far too seriously? Maybe he’s your dad? This may be the comeuppance he deserves: Pop-a-Putt!
Inserted covertly inside the regulation-sized tin cup of any green, the Pop-a-Putt waits patiently until the next ball falls inside, triggering the spring-locked mechanism and bouncing out your mark’s ball upon entry. Boing, there goes his stroke, his focus is blown, and if you’ve timed it well, perhaps you’ll mange to screw up his whole game.
Pop Up! [BimBamBanana.com]
What’s really disheartening on the golf course is when you make a putt and the ball does pop back out without a gadget like this. I’ve had it happen to me twice. Once the cup was cut into the green crooked, so on one side of the hole there was a tiny metal lip about two inches below the top of the hole. My putt just happened to roll in at just the right speed and angle … and it bounced back in my direction like a basketball shot hitting the back of the rim. Needless to say, I did a little “adjustment” of the hole with the flagstick.
Another time, I rolled in a putt that somehow managed to drop into the hole and hit the bottom of the metal cup in some freakish way that cause it to pop right up and land on the other side of the cup, teetering on the edge of the hole. The three friends I was playing with were, like me, stunned for a few seconds, as none of us had seen anything like this before. Then we all broke up laughing and took a lot of shit for the rest of the day. I don’t know what the odds of that happening are, but I should have bought a lottery ticket.
In both cases, I was screwed out of a shot. And I do a good enough job of adding strokes to my score without physics and bad greenkeeping giving me any help…