Two golf buddies were out having a good round of golf one day. Unfortunately, they both managed to land their first drive into the rough.

They split up, and the first of the two comes across his ball in the middle of a patch of tall buttercups. Since the flowers would most likely ruin any chance of a decent swing, he whacked the buttercups down with his club before lining up to take his next shot.

Just as the broken stems were settling back to the earth, suddenly the spirit of Mother Nature appeared before the startled golfer. Quite upset with his destruction, Mother Nature said to him, "You just destroyed my entire patch of beautiful buttercups, and for what, this silly game of yours! Just for that, I'm making you allergic to butter! You'll never be able to eat, smell, or even look at butter again without falling utterly sick." And with that, Mother Nature disappeared.

Well, as you could expect, the man was quite shocked by this turn of events. A little broken up about it, he went off to find his friend across the other side of the fairway. He comes across his friend, just drawing out his 9-Iron, and asks him hows things are going.

The friend replies, "Oh, not too bad, I just found my ball, under this growth of pussywillows."