Trigger Warning: This post contains VERY graphic depictions of golf violence. These are difficult to watch.

Video games are often a reflection of the culture that created them. It’s telling that violent acts with golf equipment have become more common in games made in the past few years.

Take this video, possibly the most well-known instance of golf violence in a video game. In this video, we watch the player murder a defenseless man with a golf club.

In another game, a young woman is forced to watch as her adoptive father is beaten and murdered with a golf club:

It’s an extremely common trope in games, and among gamers. Here is a Reddit thread where a player shares a video of themselves murdering a defenseless woman with a golf club. The response from Reddit? “MORE.”

We know that violence in video games is nothing new, but what is new is the disturbing trend of showing such graphic golf violence. How long until one of these gamers decides to settle a dispute with a golf club?

It would be impossible to retroactively ban all copies of these video games, but we can take concrete steps moving forward: denormalize golf and golf violence at every opportunity.

#GolfZero means no golf violence in video games, too.