Life — December 15, 1927 — page 10: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "The Indoor Golfer Holes a Mashie Approach" This is a humorous six-panel comic sequence showing a man playing golf indoors, apparently in his home. The caption plays on golf terminology ("mashie approach" being a golf club stroke). The joke depicts escalating chaos: the golfer swings repeatedly, each time hitting a small object (likely a ball) at a seated woman on the right who reacts with increasing distress and injury. By the final panel, she appears knocked over or defeated. The satire mocks both the indoor golf fad (apparently popular enough to warrant mockery in *Life*) and marital dynamics of the era—suggesting husbands' recreational hobbies cause domestic havoc and injury to their wives. The humor relies on slapstick violence presented as comedic consequence of a husband's selfish hobby.