Picking Nits
Lacey walking Smales's round; caddy day at the pool; the 10-foot diving board; Bushwood's bumpy greens; Smales allowing Danny as substitute; Ty choking in the big match; a floating Baby Ruth; Smales accepting double or nothing
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- Spalding throwing up in Dr. Beeper's car is a dick move; the reply is that it looked uncontrollable.
- Lacey walking Smales's entire round with him and Dr. Beeper is inexplicable; maybe she was already into Danny, but it is called a weird plot hole.
- As a former caddy, a caddy day at the pool would never happen; caddies get course time instead.
- The pool's diving board is basically an Olympic 10-foot board; a participant says he has never been to a country club.
- Lacey wearing black high heels with a bathing suit is explained as a flex.
- Smales's boat is tiny; the pushback is that as a judge it may be all he could afford, prompting boat-shaming jokes.
- Bushwood looks bad: the greens are awful and bumpy.
- Lacey moves from Ty to Danny in about 12 hours; this is defended as the late 70s and respected.
- Smales allowing Danny to replace Al in the $40,000 match, with Lou as referee, is agreed to be a boneheaded move.
- Ty, who hits blindfolded and shot a 68, gags in the big match like James Hardin in the Western finals.
- Baby Ruth bars do not float; the chocolate would probably harden in water.
- The big nitpick from an old column: at even on 18, the judge accepts double or nothing on Danny's putt, turning a no-loss spot into win or lose $80,000, while Al gets two-to-one odds; Judge Smales is called trash.
- In 2020 a real estate tycoon building a high-rise by a golf course would not be the hero; this should have been in What's Aged the Worst.