Tenuous golf connection: "Seinfeld" voted funniest sitcom ever

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:03:00 GMT

In a new poll conducted by "60 Minutes" and Vanity Fair, "Seinfeld" was voted the funniest sitcom of all time. In our much, much more unofficial survey, we think it's also the most golf-friendly TV show in history.

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Throughout the series, which spawned 180 episodes over nine years, golf was a recurring topic, usually involving the character of Kramer, played by Michael Richards. The actor isn't known to be a golfer in real life, but co-creator of the show, Larry David, is an avid one -- something that has been seen many times on his later series, "Curb Your Enthusiasm."

Without further ado, here are some of our favorite "Seinfeld" scenes involving golf:

-- In the episode titled "The Caddy," Kramer is advised on everything, from reading greens to clothing, by "Stan the caddy."

-- In "The Marine Biologist," Kramer throws his clubs in disgust after a sub-par range session at the beach. "I stink! ... "The ball is just sitting there and I can't hit it!"

Of course, later in that episode George saves a beached whale that had one of Kramer's golf balls stuck in its blowhole.

-- In "The Cheever Letters," Kramer complains about losing playing privileges at a private club. "I can't go back to the public courses now. I can't! I won't!"

-- In "The Boyfriend," Kramer ties up Jerry's phone line to go through a golf round in painful detail.

-- And finally, in "The Big Salad," there's the scene in which an angered Kramer talks about penalizing someone he was playing with for cleaning their ball before hitting a shot.

"Hey, a rule is a rule," he says. "And let's face it, without rules, there's chaos."

Hey, Mike Davis, is the USGA hiring?

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Tenuous golf connection: Jessica Biel turns heads at Medinah

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:27:00 GMT

By Alex Myers

Justin Timberlake's love of golf has been well documented. The actor/singer/dancer/envy of most guys is an avid player, and has supported the game in a variety of ways from attaching his name to a PGA Tour event, to buying and fixing up a boyhood course in Memphis.

Overall, the only two-time participant in Golf Digest's U.S. Open Challenge has helped increase golf's coolness index. But his contributions to the sport's "hotness," thanks to the company he keeps, aren't going unnoticed either.

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At Tuesday's Ryder Cup Captains & Celebrities Scramble at Medinah, not only did Timberlake play, but his lovely fiancee, actress Jessica Biel, was a loving follower in his gallery (above, right). The two got engaged in January and are expected to be married sometime next month. It doesn't appear that Beal is a golfer, but if you zoom in on the photo, you can see a rock on her finger that's approximately the size of a golf ball.

Here are two more pictures of Biel, so, um, you don't have to zoom in.

Of course, you don't have to look closely to notice the parasol Biel was holding while walking the fairways. Hey, you keep doing what you do, Jessica. And Justin, please play in as many celebrity tournaments as you like. . .

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