The Frumplingtons

The 2008 Ryder Cup will start in just over a week. I’m not sure who is organizing it, but I hope it isn’t Gerold Como — at least, not if his Comic Golf picture is anything to go by. We’ve spent the past few days piecing together the jigsaw version of what is, in effect, Gerold Como’s idea of a fun day on the golf course, and it involves lots of accidents, pratfalls and generally silly behaviour. Who in their right mind, for example, would take a tractor and plough up one of the greens? What sort of idiot would lean over the edge of a cliff, hanging by one leg from a wooden fence, simply in the hope of getting a birdie? And who on earth would walk down the fairway pulling behind them not a golf trolley but a little dog on wheels? The answer to all the above is: only a character in a Gerold Como painting. Frankly, the man’s a genius!

See more Gerold Como jigsaw pictures over on our jigsaw puzzle site. (Go and see the original comic golf picture, too, at Gerold Como’s own site.) The bunker, in the bottom left hand corner of the picture, looks like a big fish, complete with dorsal fin. At least, that’s what I think. Is it just me?