Well, if it’s 2 June, it must be… YES, OF COURSE: the 28th anniversary of golfer Peter Croke teeing off at the 17th hole at Southerndown Golf Club near Porthcawl in Wales only to see his ball strike a sheep right in the arsehole. And get stuck.
Peter, quoted in Sam Jordison’s Annus Horribilis — 365 tales of comic misfortune, said
the sheep looked mildly surprised by the whole thing, but we were in hysterics.
The Southerndown course, apparently, is laid out on common land, “so local farmers have the right to graze their flocks here”.
It would be nice to think that karma would have something to say about golfers who drive balls up sheep’s arses and laugh about it, but this would be a misplaced thought. The story continues:
