I’ve come across references to snakes in golf games twice this week. Is there a golf term or joke involving killing snakes?
The term is “being an asshole,"
So “Plant’s killing snakes” means, “Plant is being an asshole”?
That would be my take.
The only thing I could find was some stories about being careful when you look for golfballs where a snake might lurk, and one odd story about a woman who would actively look for snakes and go kill them. I think “asshole” is right, unless there’s a local in-joke where you are.
There is an expression “worm burner” which is a shot that barely leaves the ground but travels just above the grass at a high rate of speed. Some people may talk about “killing snakes” in the same way, but I haven’t heard that particular expression.
Thanks. I read James Garner’s autobiography and an Alley Oop strip where golf is invented.
I found that, too. Perhaps the expression means to hold up the game for some selfish reason. I guess that qualifies as being an asshole.
I once had a boss who used the phrase “killing snakes” to mean milling around looking busy, so a passerby might think actual work was being done. “They saw the boss coming, so they started moving around. When he got there, he thought they was killin’ snakes.”
Sorry, there is only one authoritative narrative about the invention of golf.
Let’s put Alley Oop and P.G. Wodehouse in an arena and see who wins out.
Thanks for the link, BTW.
Wodehouse. It’s Wodehouse.
So, it wasn’t Bullroarer Took at the Battle of Greenfields who invented the game?
Tolkien was an Oxford professor, how could he mislead me so? 
Sir, that is not the invention, it is but the acceptance. The Scots no doubt are the descendants of Moovians.
Och, ye villain Oop! Keep ye Dinny poop offen me porch!
I love the sexy slither of a lady snake; oh, baby.
While golfing, when we saw someone lose their temper and start pounding the ground with their club, someone would often comment they were just killing snakes.
Knew before clicking what your link was. One of my favorite Wodehouse stories.
“Where is my imperial mesh-knit underwear?”
Parenthetically, I’ve always felt that Wodehouse is one of the top ten best writers in the English language; but he gets overlooked because he wrote comic stories and novels.