This seems like a 19th hole area so this is appropriate.
Whats your favourite golf movie and why.
Don’t feel you have to stop at one either.
To my knowledge you can choose from:
Caddyshack
Caddyshack 2
The Greatest Game ever played
Bobby Jones Stroke of Genius
Dead Solid Perfect
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Tin Cup
Happy Gilmore
Miracle on the 17th green
Who’s your caddy?
A Gentleman’s game
Follow the sun
Feel free to add any others you know of and say which are your favourites!
Style, of the ones you mentioned I have only watched these:
Caddyshack
Caddyshack 2
The Greatest Game ever played
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Tin Cup
Happy Gilmore
and my favourite were The Greatest Game Ever Played and completely different in style, silly as but a classic, Happy Gilmore. I have been looking for Dead Solid Perfect for ages here but cannot find it. I had never heard of the other ones but thanks to your post I’ll soon be watching more movies… 
Great idea for a post—Ill have more comments later but FIND DEAD SOLID PERFECT—
I wasnt a golfer at all when I saw it years ago, but Randy Quaid was just awesome…I cant wait to see it again!!!
Caddyshack- awesome
Caddyshack 2- woeful
Greatest Game Ever Played- excellent
Bobby Jones Stroke of Genius- very good
Dead Solid Perfect- excellent
Bagger Vance- excellent
Tin Cup- average
Happy Gilmore- awesome in a different way
Miracle On The 17th green- average
who’s your caddy?- yikes
a gentlemans game - have it (haven’t watched it yet)
follow the sun- pretty good for it’s era
The caddy- Jerry Lewis (haven’t seen it yet)
These 3 below although not movies are pretty funny short skits and some good golfing entertainment
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hA3_rihmcg[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q0kN9s57SQ[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD-LvABxMsY[/youtube]
I thought of another one, I’d be surprised if many of you have seen this but its called Rhubarb and stars Eric Sykes.
Its absolutely hilarious but really hard to get hold of.
I think I only seen it once many many years ago on BBC.
I think you can get it on amazon but only in video tape.
Anyone seen it?
I think there is room for a great film about living in the trenches on the foreign tours, maybe set in the 1970’s before a lot of the modern conveniences were available… internet, less than perfect manicured courses. I think of my years on the Canadian Tour, and some of the characters developments that could be based upon real life guys I knew would be a directors dream.
A movie not about making it… but not making it might be even more interesting… and the trials and tribulations that come along.
I know a couple people that have made independent films that were really good, and they are usually a labor of love that might get into a few of the indie festivals… but even a bare bones film can cost $250,000 to $1,000,000, and you usually take a blood bath on it for the sake of everyone elses enjoyment. I think I could write a great script, but it would be ruined if Hollywood got a hold of it more than likely.
I’d like to see a Michael Moore documentary on the corporatization of golf. Ping vs USGA, bionic golf glove vs USGA, the killing of the Road Hole and Augusta, past and current champions interviews all screaming equipment is killing the game, mass production effect on widespread fakes, IMG, … Plenty of material.
I’d pretty much agree with that, except I haven’t seen “Miracle on the 17th green” and I thought 'Who’s your caddy?" was a great laugh.
In addition:
A gentleman’s game - very good.
The Caddy - how can one not like a film with Ben Hogan, Sam Snead, Julius Boros, Harry Cooper and someone else I can’t remember in it?
The Tiger Woods Story - worse than Caddyshack 2.
Caddyshack
Caddyshack 2
The Greatest Game ever played
Bobby Jones Stroke of Genius
Dead Solid Perfect
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Tin Cup
Happy Gilmore
Miracle on the 17th green
Who’s your caddy?
A Gentleman’s game
Follow the sun
Rhubarb
The Caddy
The Tiger Woods Story
Can I just say, that bad as it is, The Tiger Woods Story is worth watching if for no other reason than the guy they have playing Monty. Hilarious.
Did you like ‘Who’s your caddy?’ Styles?
This scene’s for you Prot:
My personal favorite is the HBO film "Dead Solid Perfect’ with Randy Quaid. Dan Jenkins did the screenplay and had a cameo role in it. Jack Warden - one of my favorite character actors - was great in it as well.
I’m hearing that Reid Sheftall - author of the fantastic book ‘Striking it Rich’ - is trying to get funding together for a film based upon his book. This would be great stuff! For those not familiar with the book or Dr. Sheftall’s story - I urge you to pick up a copy - you will not be sorry. This guy is one of the most amazing people I’ve ever heard of. Briefly, he was a great junior golfer who competed against the likes of Joey Sindelar and John Cook who gave up the game in his mid-teens because of embarrassing temper tantrums on the course. He later graduated from MIT with a degree in Physics - after competing on MIT’s tennis and rowing teams. He was a 21 year old physics professor at USC but decided he wanted to get into medicine…and eventually did. He financed his medcial school education by learning to be a “card counter” at various casinos. Much later on, he founded a clinic for burn victims in Cambodia and - in his mid-forties - was enticed back into golf by a bunch of gambling Cambodian generals (I’m not making this up…). he got so good at beating them that they kicked him out of their games. Still later, on the advice of Mark McCumber - he tried pro golf by qualifying - at the age of 47 - for the Asian PGA tour. HIs thoughts on playing tournament golf are unlike anything that I’ve ever read. This has got to be some of the greatest material for a golf film that I’ve ever heard of.
Thank you CYPRESS for mentioning my book and my plans for a film.
Yes I am working on a film version of my book. I have alot of good ideas for this film and I can’t wait to give them a try. In particular, I am going to try to make a golf movie that is a realistic study of the struggles that a good but not incredibly good golfer (my USGA handicap which I keep for comparison purposes is currently +4.2) wrestles with on the pro golf tours. I have been playing for 5 years now and have improved to the point that I have made 11 cuts in a row and actually won a tournament last summer but, oh, its always a struggle. Yes I am still working as a full-time surgeon and that complicates matters too.
One of my pet peeves regarding golf movies is the terrible casting. Matt Damon in Bagger Vance, Kevin Kostner and Don Johnson in Tin Cup, Mason Gamble in A Gentleman’s Game, etc are all fine actors but they can’t play golf very well. So when we hear an observer in the first scene say, when watching him hit the ball,: “Absolutely fcking pure Timmy. absolutely fcking pure.” we moviegoers immediately chuckle under under our breaths and the movie loses credibility. I’m going to try to fix that.
The other problem with golf movies are the ridiculous, unbelievable stories. Some of the writers don’t play golf or they would realize that Kevin Kostner hitting 5 balls to the green and finally getting one on doesn’t mean anything. A 5 handicapper can do that. What separates the tour player is that he can do it on the first ball over and over and if he misses he will get the ball up and down from in front of the pond 80% of the time. And if he doesn’t get it up and down, he will shoot 71 that day instead of 70. Getting these things right in my film is going to be my challenge. Bagger Vance? gosh I don’t know what to say. I know alot of people liked that movie but to me it was embarassing. Bad golfer gets 12 strokes behind Jones and Hagen but comes back miraculously after poorly cast new wave caddy tells him to find his swing in the middle of the round. Nonsense- that’s not pro golf. Its not even believable during a twilight round playing by yourself. Pro golf is course management, keeping your perspective so your nerves don’t make you unravel out there, controlling your emotions when things start to go south on you (which might be only bogeying an easy par-5 or missing two short putts in a row.)
Do our forum readers here agree with me on these things?
To fix this I’m going to use actors and pro golfers tto play the roles (or play themselves). I was even going to play myself to save money but I’m getting too old. My favorite sports movie is HOOSIERS . It is great to a large degree because the KIDS COULD PLAY.
I would appreciate any comments as I get deeper into the creation of the film. I know I am adding to this thread late (the last entry was on Jan 12 but I hope someone still sees it and responds. Thank you everyone.
Dr. Sheftall
You can start a new thread in this area asking for suggestions. People here are very forthcoming. And may be you will find your cast here. There are some good golfers here.
Hi Macs:
I don’t know how to start a thread. Can you do it for me? Please Use CYPRESS"S reply followed by mine to start it. This will help me immensely to hear various opinions on golf movie shortcomings.
Thank you MACS
Heh Styles, seen “Hole in One” yet? So bad it was quite funny.
This Robbin Williams clip is my fave.
NB before clicking: He drops the F-bomb a lot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcnFbCCgTo4
Cheers
hawg1
Just to update the most complete golf movie thread on the net:
“Of God and Golf”
Absolute rubbish.
where do you find them steb?
Not seen or heard of either of those last two you mentioned. I know you are a fair judge so no doubt they are as you say!
Did you have a read of A Hole in One’s plot?
Eric, a highly-gifted golfer but radically-undisciplined college undergrad, finds his world drastically altered after losing a golf bet to a pair of sadistic plastic surgeons. Eric’s bad-boy attitude lifestyle comes to a screeching halt as he loses his money, his girlfriend, his dignity and his golf swing. Eric and his best friend Tyler decide to take on the doctors, in a final golf match of “Best-Ball” to get his life back and become the man he should have been all along.
You’ll probably never find this film, so click-drag your mouse from here downwards if you want to read what happened:
So for losing the bet, a setup, the sadistic plastic surgeons made Eric undergo a radical new breast implant operation for men that they had trouble finding a guinea pig for. So Eric got a set of tits, big ones, and he had to start wearing baggy clothes.
The surgeons then became interested in buying out Eric’s mate’s successful golf clothing business (which wasn’t for sale), so Eric and his mate put the business up for another bet so Eric could get his breast procedure reversed.
no way thats a film, its a family guy plot!