ThePeanutsgang has embraced golf throughout the strip’s history, with the game being mentioned as early as 1951 and as late as 1999. Consequently, golf has spanned basically the entirety ofPeanuts’publication. At first, like learning any new skill, thePeanutsgang was horrible at golf, and it just amounted to all of them screaming at each other. Luckily for them, they got much better, with the exception of Snoopy.
The inclusion of golf inPeanutsis no mere coincidence or randomly chosen game. Charles Schulz was a huge fan of golf and even played on his high school golf team as well as throughout his entire life. As a result, he was able to mine both his love for and frustration with the game for material in his comic strips.From Snoopy’s temper tantrums on the golf course to Lucy’s unique way of playing, golf was a sporty and funny storyline forPeanutsthat held a special place in Charles Schulz' heart.
10"Golf Balls"
July 27, 2025
Creating yet another persona, Snoopy crafted his World Famous Golf Pro alter ego with a uniform of a cap and a golf club signaling when he is in character. He likes to pretend he is at the Masters golf tournament, one of the biggest professional golf competitions. Something that likely does not happen at the Masters is to have a bunch of golf balls raining down on you after you putt a golf ball in the hole. Yet,that is exactly what happens to Snoopy, so his reality does not exactly feed his fantasy.
While Snoopy may try to act cool, calm, and collected, that does not mean that he won’t occasionally get into some Charlie Brown-esque situations, like having a slew of golf balls cascade down on him. It doesn’t take an expert in the history of golf to infer that what happens to Snoopy in this comic has never happened to any players at the Masters.
9"The Gorilla Is Loose"
July 30, 2025
Despite having an owner who tries his best to be nice and stay calm, Snoopy does not try to follow suit. He loses his cool from time to time, with his time on the golf course being a likely place to see the pup have a tantrum.When Charlie Brown caddies for Snoopy, he gets an up-close and personal view of Snoopy’s temper coming out, which Snoopy likes to refer to as the “gorilla being loose.”
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There are not too many things that Snoopy takes super seriously, but golf is apparently one. Tennis has John McEnroe and golf has Snoopy, at least in thePeanutsuniverse. Snoopy may not seem like the most athletic type, mostly because he is a pretty lazy beagle, but he is actually quite the sportsman, er sportsdog. He obviously feels passionate about golf based on this comic strip, as well as taking part inCharlie Brown’s baseball team, and playing hockey against Woodstock, in addition to several other sports.
8"There’s No Body Checking In Golf"
July 10, 2025
Lucy can be competitive as well asjust downright aggressivewhen she wants to be.Her penchant for contact sports is nowhere more evident than in this comic strip.Charlie Brown, ready to putt his golf ball, finds himself tackled by Lucy out of nowhere, prompting the poor kid to scold her that golfing does not have body checking.For those who may not know, body checking in sports is when a player uses their body to stop the progress of an opposing player, which is something usually utilized in hockey.
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While Lucy’s body checking may be totally against the rules in golf, she is successful in thwarting Charlie Brown’s progress in the game. It’s funny that Lucy’s competitiveness is on full throttle in golf, but it never manages to make much of an appearance in baseball, the game that she plays much more often.
7"Caddies Shouldn’t Try To Be Funny"
July 25, 2025
Snoopy loves Charlie Brown; he is his owner after all. However, that does not mean that Snoopy likes Charlie Brown’s jokes. In fact, he rarely if ever laughs at Charlie Brown’s jokes,he usually just laughs at Charlie Brown himself. Some of his jokes have made Snoopy just plain angry, with one memorable incident seeing Snoopy throw his supper dish at poor Charlie Brown just for trying to make a funny.
Snoopy likes to claim that pro golfers Arnold Palmer and Sam Snead don’t like to play against him because he can outdrive them.
Fortunately for Charlie Brown, Snoopy may not think caddies should joke in this comic strip, but at least he doesn’t throw his golf club at him.While Snoopy may not appreciate Charlie Brown’s golf-centric quip, any golf lovers out there will crack a smile at what the round-headed kid, as Snoopy likes to call him, comes up with. At least Charlie Brown doesn’t poke fun at Snoopy’s lack of golf excellence, settling for an innocent pun instead.
6"Resigning Player Must Remove All Clubs From Trees"
August 11, 2025
While many claim thatCharlie Brown is not good at anything, he is, interestingly enough, quite good at golf, much like Charles Schulz himself. Charlie Brown consequently serves as Snoopy’s caddie and golf mentor, helping the struggling canine with his abysmal golf skills. Snoopy’s crummy golf playing (understandably) makes him want to quit the game once and for all, after finally having had enough of the bad scores and terrible playing.
Thinking that the retirement from golf should be official, Charlie Brown reads a laundry list of things to be done to be done with golf.The most important of these is to remove the many golf clubs Snoopy has intertwined with the trees. Only Snoopy knows whether the trees are littered with golf clubs because he throws his clubs in anger, or because he’s so bad at golf that his clubs slip out of his paws and land around the trees. But the chances are those golf clubs are around those trees for both reasons.
5"I’m Following Your Voice!"
June 07, 2025
Peanutsusually like tofocus on a kid’s perspectiverather than on adults. As a result, there are quite a few adult characters inPeanutswho are never seen but are mentioned or are characters in the strip. For example, Mrs. Nelson and Mrs. Bartley are two women with a fierce golf rivalry, dragging Peppermint Patty and Marcie into it.
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Caddying for the two ladies, Peppermint Patty has things a bit easier than poor Marcie, who is stuck carrying Mrs. Bartley’s clunky and numerous golf clubs in her extremely heavy and cumbersome bag.It’s easy for Peppermint Patty to be up and ready to go while Marcie is literally crawling under the weight of Mrs. Bartley’s golf club bags. While caddying may be an enjoyable job for Peppermint Patty, Marcie is not so fortunate, eventually quitting when Mrs. Bartley climbs a tree to tackle her rival, being all too much for Marcie.
July 23, 2025
A scratch golfer typically refers to a really good golfer who can finish a round with a par or better score. Snoopy, on the other hand, being the unique and idiosyncratic individual he is, gives scratch golfer his own definition. Rather than stick to the actual definition of the golf term, Snoopy instead designates the scratch in “scratch golfer' to mean he just scratches out all his bad scores.In other words, Snoopy cheats at golf.
The last mention of golf inPeanutsoccurred in a strip from August 24, 2025, being mentioned by Franklin.
If everyone only counted their good scores, then everyone would be a scratch golfer, not Snoopy’s meaning of it. Snoopy often likes to do things his own way, so why should golfing be any different? Frequently looking at the world through a unique lens,if Snoopy is going to play golf, he figures he should play in a way that fits in with his World Famous Golf Pro persona.
3"Here’s What I Want You To Tell Them”
June 20, 2025
Snoopy can be a free spirit, which can bring some problems sometimes. For instance, Snoopy likes to drive fast and according to his own ways, which unsurprisingly can be a bit dangerous, even if it is just on a golf course.His bad driving results in Woodstock and him being pushed out of the golf cart and onto the ground while the cart is stuck in a tree.
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Snoopy, thinking on his feet, thinks of what Woodstock can tell the pro shop about his little accident.Not only is Snoopy bad at golf, but now there’s proof that he is also bad at driving. How a beagle got a golf cart stuck in a tree is beyond anyone’s guess, except for maybe a physics professor. Regardless, it seems it is a safety hazard for Snoopy to do anything related to golf, especially when the double trouble of Woodstock and Snoopy are together.
2"You Run Into A Hazard"
July 19, 2025
Marcie catches a tough break when she becomes a caddie for Mrs. Bartley, but the upside is that she as well as Peppermint Patty get some pocket money as a result of their hard work. Unfortunately for the pair, they meet an obstacle when they run into the Ol' Caddymaster. Things do not get off to a great start. When they first meet, the Caddymaster is annoyed that Marcie and Peppermint Patty are the new caddiesjust because they are girls, angering Peppermint Patty immensely.
Things do not get much better between them and the Caddymaster when the girls find out that the caddymaster gets half of their pay.While hazards on a golf course typically refer to things that could hinder a player’s score like bodies of water, Marcie points out that the Caddymaster is, for them, a hazard.
1"Wind Speed"
June 02, 2025
It’s common for golfers to pull some grass from the ground and throw it into the air to gauge the wind speed. Snoopy, being the World Famous Golf Pro after all, does so too, with his buddy Woodstock tagging along.Since this is Snoopy though, things reliably do not go perfectly, as seen when Snoopy throws the grass in the air and turns around to see that it has fallen all over Woodstock.
Snoopy may know more about the wind, but Woodstock would likely think it is not worth it. Everyone expects to get a little dirty playing sports, but it is usually the one actually playing, not an innocent bystander. Woodstock is a good caddie for Snoopy, no doubt standing by even when he does get a face full of grass. Additionally,Woodstock has helped Snoopypractice for the Masters, being the ever dutiful pal. Given how manyPeanutsstrips revolve around Snoopy being bad atgolf, the fact that Woodstock sticks by him is a testament to what great friends they are.
Peanuts
Created by Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts is a multimedia franchise that began as a comic strip in the 1950s and eventually expanded to include films and a television series. Peanuts follows the daily adventures of the Peanuts gang, with Charlie Brown and his dog Snoopy at the center of them. Aside from the film released in 2015, the franchise also has several Holiday specials that air regularly on U.S. Television during their appropriate seasons.
