The Last of Us Part 2: Neil Druckmann talks about the famous golf club

In the last hours the game director and writer N spoke of one of the most emblematic and important scenes of The Last of Us Part 2, the sequel to the famous title of N which was released last June 19, 2020 exclusively on PlayStation 4. This pivotal moment features a golf club, and only today has Druckmann decided to offer us more context on the subject, also telling his personal history with golf and how he suffered permanent head trauma. This article contains spoilers about The Last of Us Part 2, so we advise you to continue reading only if you have already had the opportunity to play the suggestive adventure that allowed us to return to take on the roles of Ellie and Joel.

Throughout the story, players witness a particularly heartbreaking scene, which he sees Abby brutally kill the protagonist of the first chapter of the series, Joel, with a golf club. In an interview granted to The Washington Post, Neil Druckmann stated that the choice to have Joel killed with a golf club came later in the writing process. Originally, Abby was about to stab the man with a knife, paralyzing him by twisting the blade in his back. In all of this, the director said he has a very special personal connection with golf club-related injuries, as he was hit in the head by a golf club when he was 16, an injury that took more than 30 stitches to make. be closed and that caused a bruise to the skull. 

For a long time, Abby stabbed Joel in the back and then twisted the knife to paralyze him. But the knife looked more like an Ellie thing. We wanted something different. A friend of mine loved golf. He invited me to go to a driving range to show me the basic techniques. I got behind him while he was swinging and he hit me in the head. There was blood everywhere.