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Golf is known as a game of propriety, even to the point of the player being in charge of calling penalties against himself for rules violations.

Imagine this man's surprise when, after allegedly pointing out another man's bad manners in the Cape Cod area of Massachusetts, he was reportedly beaten with nothing less than a golf club.

This came just days after another sports-clubbing incident on the Cape was resolved in court. It happened last summer when a man beat another with a baseball bat, supposedly upset that the victim was wearing a Yankees ball cap. I suppose he was a Red Sox fan.

Neither victim was seriously injured, which hints that the perpetrators may have been more upset by their lack of skill with their chosen sporting instrument.