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December 27, 2021 - 8:33 am EST 2 years ago

Gift-Giver’s Mistake Brings Golfer To Tears

Chris Chaney Chris Chaney
Gift-Giver’s Mistake Brings Golfer To Tears

We’re always told that the season of giving is about the thought put into the gift, not the gift itself, and rarely does a portion of the population truly understand this sentiment more than golfers.

Let’s face it: we’re a different breed of “hard to buy for.” We have our quirks and preferences based on brand, past memories and ridiculous superstitions, so when a well-meaning, spouse, family member or friend thinks they really hit the jackpot with a golf gift, most of the time we’re left offering a cursory smile and a half-hearted (but fully intentional) “you shouldn’t have.”

Cornering the market on this holiday tradition are the guys over at No Laying Up who year after year put out “unusable golf gift from your non-golfer relative” pictures.


Receiving hundreds of replies, rarely does the thread disappoint, but one of the best of the worst of 2021 came from Steve Wolf, a high school technology teacher from just outside of Cincinnati, Ohio. Wolf shared a gift certificate from his sister promising he and his father a complimentary round of golf at Pebble Beach Golf Course, on a to-be-determined date with the cost covered by the family.

That’s a pretty awesome golf gift. So awesome, in fact, that Wolf reported his father began to cry upon receiving it.

The catch? There’s a public course in Cincinnati called Pebble Creek, a 6,100-yard municipal golf course that winds through a residential neighborhood. It’s a fine public track, but Pebble Beach Golf Links, one of the most picturesque golf courses in the world and host of PGA Tour events & major championships… it is not.

Realizing the emotion a round of golf at a local golf course elicited was no on par with the expectation, Wolf said his sister knew something was off and broke the news to her father that she had accidentally swapped “Pebble Creek” with “Pebble Beach.”

After overcoming the initial shock and disappointment, Wolf reported the family will “laugh about for a while now that (they’re) over it.”

While the Pebble Beach/Creek gift was one of the big hits of the unusable gift thread, there were plenty more to chuckle at, such as a scorekeeping beer koozie, ball-finding sunglasses and of course, the Potty Putter.

Here are some of the best of the rest.