A good joke spoiled

Dustin, 5/25/24

Syndicated newspaper comic strip creators love golf for some accursed reason, but I have to say that they're generally pretty good about only doing jokes about aspects of golf that non-golfers know about through cultural osmosis, like that you can lose your ball in a sand or water trap, or that everyone who plays it fucking hates it for some reason. Today's Dustin, however, requires you to know whether 112 is a good or a bad score. I mean, I guess it's clear from context that it's bad, but still: I think this is over the line. It made me dedicate some thought to the awful "sport of kings" [note to self: wait, is that horse racing? double-check this] when I all wanted to do is find out what specific kind of terrible asshole Dustin's dad was going to be today. Unacceptable! Save it for your side gig submitting New Yorker-style single-panel cartoons to Golf Digest, creeps!

Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/25/24