Rob Lowe is too traumatised to play golf again after killing a bird mid-flight when he struck a shot.

He said: "I gave golf up because I killed the Iowa state bird in flight in a golf tournament. I hit a really, I thought, nice sand wedge ... boink ... in the air. Dead."

Rob was later informed by the tournament's sponsors that the odds of hitting an American goldfinch in flight with a golf ball was one in 747 million, a lot less likely than the chances of an amateur golfer getting a hole in one, which is one in 12,500.

Following the incident, Rob was quoted by local newspaper The Des Moines Register as saying: "That's my birdie. Who comes here and kills the state bird? Only me."

While Rob didn't have a lot of luck on the golf course, he also admitted he should've known TV series 'Lyon's Den', in which he played a lawyer, wasn't going to be a big success because the majority of the show - which lasted just one series in 2003 - was filmed next to a dildo factory rather than in a studio.

Speaking on talk show 'Conan', he added: "'Lyon's Den' was meant to be my big follow up to the 'West Wing' and I should have known that nobody had any real faith in the show when, instead of letting us shoot it in the studio a lot, they made us shoot in a warehouse next to a dildo factory."

UK viewers can watch Rob's interview on 'Conan' at 11pm tonight (20.01.15), on truTV (freeview channel 68) - the home of larger than life characters in real situations.