# Vincent Jopp — Golf Stories character guide

> Vincent Jopp in Golf Stories by P. G. Wodehouse.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Jopp, Vincent

**First appearance:** 0000-archibald-s-benefit

## Snapshot

A business titan who approaches golf as a problem to be solved by pure reason, memorizing the rules and expecting instant mastery.

## Who they are

Vincent Jopp corners Woven Textiles for breakfast and decides to conquer golf by lunch, hiring the champion McHoots and committing his every hint to memory. He buys one ball, refuses to believe he might lose it, and attacks the pin from two hundred and twenty yards. His unshakable confidence — beyond the scope of ordinary human nature — makes him the most formidable and least self-aware golfer the club has ever seen.

## In the story

### [The Heel of Achilles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/golf_stories_se/chapters/the-heel-of-achilles)

The American multimillionaire who takes up golf with Pure Reason, becomes a scratch player on his first day, and reaches the final of the American Amateur Championship.

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