It’s funny…people never believe me when I tell them I won my putter at a stag party. Well, that’s not exactly true. “Serious” golfers never believe me when I tell them I won my putter at a stag.

Actually, now that I think about it, I guess that isn’t entirely true either.  I actually won a fairway wood at a stag and traded it to the guy who won the putter. At the time, I wasn’t interested in a fairway wood. But, I needed a new putter, so there you go.

Recently, Stinky Golfer Greg and I attended another stag party and, along with all of the requisite raffle prizes such as bottles of alcohol and tickets to sporting events, was a little golf package – some golf balls, a club cleaner, etc. But it made Greg and I think…when’s the last time we went to a stag and golf wasn’t somehow involved?

The two have become almost synonymous with each other. Golf and stags, stags and golf, it’s like peanut butter & jelly or ham & cheese. You never see one without the other. Whether the stag is a golf trip or involves a round of golf, or the raffle prizes are golf equipment, golf is somehow involved in just about every bachelor or stag party I’ve ever been to.

So what does that say? Is golf popular enough that it’s almost guaranteed there are enough guys among any group of friends that play? Enough to warrant there’s something golf related at any stag? I guess that’s just how popular the sport is among guys. We had golf raffle prizes at my stag. We had them at Greg’s stag. Heck, we had a week-long vacation in New Mexico for Greg’s wedding, and even that included golf.

And what’s wrong with using the golf equipment you won at a stag anyway? A putter is a putter, whether it was free or if I bought it. I needed a putter, but I didn’t really want to spend much money on one. And what’s better than not spending much money on golf equipment? Getting it for free! Well…the cost of the stag and the raffle anyway. But you get the idea. I won a putter and had a good time doing it.

Besides, I had to replace the free putter I got from my brother-in-law when helping him move. Coincidentally, it was also his stag.

Swing ’til you’re happy!