This April Fool's prank came to me as I was watching golf. Enough of you have seen golf on TV this prank to make sense. Unfortunately, we won't have a weekend April Fool's day until 2112, and by then you'll have forgotten about this post and you'll be caught up in the April Foolery just like everyone else.
Cameramen at golf events have perfected the ability to focus in tight on a golf ball in flight. Most of you have seen this done. A golfer hits his tee shot. The ball suddenly appears on the screen and the camera even focuses tight on the ball. Then as the ball is descending, the shot widens and we see the golf course and then the ball hits the ground.
Okay, in my prank there is a CGI prepared to switch to during this process. When the switch is made from the golfer striking the ball to the tight shot of a ball in flight, the switch is actually to the CGI shot. The announcers, who are in on this and watching what we're seeing on their monitor, suddenly notice, and comment on, the fact that the ball has slowed and come to a stop. The shot widens and we see the ball suspended in the air, stationary. Then the ball starts to do lazy eights in the air and then it starts chasing Tiger Wood around on the golf course. Crowd noises are inserted to conform with what we're seeing on the screen and the announcers are going nuts!
Then they all start laughing and in unison cry out, "April Fools!"
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Instead (from your tee-shot beginning):
Tiger is standing in the fairway (supposedly at an unreachable spot), the ball descends and embeds into Tiger's skull, instantly killing him.
Announcer: "OMG, Tiger's dead!"
Then everyone laughs and yells "April Fools!"
Golf would never be the same, -and CBS would lose every golf TV contract from here to eternity. -Who cares, they have the NFL...
I think that the sorts of folks who are watching televised golf are also those with high rates of heart problems (too old and hefty to play other sports, so I'm heading there shortly, as long as there are plenty of chips available), and this might kill a 4 share of the audience, which is never good.
Pistolero, you mean Big T's version, right? My version is just plain silly and the sponsors would love it. There would be a bidding war between Titleist and (insert name of second tier ball brand name) for the honor of being that crazy ball.
Bertsky,
You have waaaay too much time on your hands.
xoxo
Grammiekins
Bert, in a world where thousands of Americans panic over a War of the Worlds broadcast, I don't think you can ever overestimate our stupidity.
People will be jumping out of buildings if you mess with their golf.
I thought golf was really just a group of guys from work getting drunk while their admin did all the work back at the office?
Mrs. LK, there is a version of golf played by businessmen, just as you have described it. But it is not the game of golf described in the USGA / R&A Rules of Golf. Drinking 18 bottles of beer in a round of golf is both detrimental to one's health, as well as the nobility of the game.
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