Impressing the girl whilst addressing the ball
WC Fields vehicle (his first talking part) allows him to roll out his usual stock of one-liners. Setting is a faux golf course made up of flimsy stages. Over half the short is taking up with Fields simulating a golf pro trying to impress the pretty wife of the jealous house detective. Because of a series of interruptions to his 'lesson' he never gets round to actually hitting a ball! The disruptions come from caddie (Allen Wood) with a deadpan, Buster Keaton like expression on his face, from a society lady with a borzoi dog (Fields complements the woman on her 'camel'), & from a girl who walks down the line of the tee & then back again, breaking one of Fields' golf sticks on the ground in the process. Fields picks up the broken club head & hands it to the passive caddy with the instruction, "Here, this is for short holes!" Wood who keeps getting in the way of Fields' shot nearly steals the scene.
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