Life — July 15, 1926 — page 8: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "Mental Hazards — The Sand-Trap" This is a golf cartoon captioned as a "Mental Hazard." The image shows a golfer in the foreground struggling in a sand bunker, while in the background a caravan of camels and their handlers trek across the desert landscape beneath a large moon. The satire plays on the golfer's psychological distress in the sand trap—a common golfing obstacle. The desert caravan in the background appears to mock the golfer's predicament by suggesting his sand trap resembles an actual desert. The humor derives from the contrast between a minor sporting frustration and the far more arduous challenges of actual desert travel, critiquing perhaps how much mental importance golfers attach to their sport's obstacles.