James Caan & Don Adams: Winter Rules

Don Adams was among a group of comedian-golfers who gambled on their games together. During a round one day, James Caan found himself arguing with Adams right from the get-go. "You're gonna give me four strokes aside," Adams said. Caan relucantly agreed. Then Adams said, "We're playing winter rules" (meaning that a ball on the fairway could be rolled over if it was muddy). On the first hole, Adams hit his ball into a barranca. When he went to move it, Caan asked him what he was doing. "We're playing winter rules," he said. Caan argued and they continued playing...
On the last hole, Caan made a lovely shot onto the green. Adams, who had already lost several small bets to Caan, hit his second shot into a sand trap. Caan drove his cart up a hill to the clubhouse and started walking back down to the hole. "As I'm walking down the hill," he later recalled, "I see Adams moving his ball from the rough, through the elephant grass - and he doesn't know I'm standing above him watching him - and moves his ball all the way to the fringe of the green. I said, 'What the heck are you doing!' He says, 'We're playing winter rules!' And he starts screaming and everybody's watching [from the clubhouse above]: 'You moved the ball on the fairway!' 'Yeah, on the fairway you can move it!' ... I run down, I literally pick him up, slam him on the ground, I get on his chest, I pry open his mouth and stuff a golf ball in there. So I'm sitting there and I'm looking at him and I just get hysterical [laughing]. I rolled off him and I'm dying, and Adams gets up, and he says, 'Remind me never to go bowling with you!'"

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