The character
name of one of the "Little Rascals", a black
boy who starred along with Buckwheat. He was black, so they gave him a name associated with his shade of skin color, what you'd probably see if you were blind.
Stymie is Scottish for "blind man.", in particular, one with white eyes like cataracts, thus what they'd call
one golf ball blocking another golf ball on the golf
green. It really could, with some imagination, look like a man with cataracts.