The 10 Best Golf Movies - Golf & Cinema

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Golf is a Science, the study of a lifetime. You can exhaust yourself; you won't exhaust the subject. It is a struggle, a duel that requires courage, skill, strategy, self-control. It offers camaraderie with friends. The opportunity to show courtesy friendliness generosity to his opponents It is a test of cold blood. a judgment of honor, a revealer of character. it offers physical health but also moral strength. Something to inspire the greatest actors and directors of the Seventh Art. 

CADDYSHACK - GOLF MADNESS

  • Release date July 25, 1980 (1h 39min)
  • By Harold Ramis
  • With: Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Michael O'Keefe…
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Nationality: American

The story takes place in a very exclusive golf course where all the members are very rich and eccentric but all the employees are poor. The main character is Danny, a caddy, who wants to raise as much money as possible in order to enroll in the University.

TIN CUP

  • Release date September 11, 1996 (2h 15min)
  • By Ron Shelton
  • With Kevin Costner, Rene Russo, Tom Todoroff…
  • Genre Comedy
  • Nationality American

Roy McAvoy is a talented golf player who puts all bad luck on his side until the day his main competitor hires him as a simple caddy to humiliate him even better. Roy accepts but he rebels in the middle of a competition and causes a scandal. There is only one chance for Roy not to be completely dishonored in his own eyes: to win the US Open!

HAPPY GILMORE - TERMINAGOLF

  • By Dennis Dugan
  • With Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen ...
  • Genres Comedy, Romance
  • Nationality American

To save his grandmother's house, a hockey player becomes a golf player. The technique is not the same!

THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE - THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE

  • Release date April 11, 2001 (2h 06min)
  • By Robert Redford
  • With Matt Damon, Will Smith, Charlize Theron…
  • Genres Dramatic comedy,
  • Fantastic, Sport event
  • Nationality American

Child prodigy of Savannah, precocious golf champion, boyfriend of the ravishing and wealthy Adele Invergordon, Rannulph Junuh is sent to the front, where the horror of the First World War hits him head-on. After several years of silence, this disenchanted war hero returns to Savannah in complete anonymity, haunted by the atrocious memory of what he lived. Ghost among the living, he retreats from the world to an old dilapidated mansion.
The Great Depression of 1929 melted all fortunes, Adele's father committed suicide to escape the dishonor of ruin, and the golf course he had built seems doomed to bankruptcy. The young woman then decides to bring Junuh out of his retirement and pit him against the two greatest golfers of the time, Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen, in a tournament whose profits will allow the field not to disappear.
But Junuh doesn't want to hear about it. He is certain to have lost the secret of the “authentic swing” which had made his reputation as a champion. A man appearing out of nowhere presents himself to him. It is a mysterious and providential black caddy, Bagger Vance, whose advice seems to have an impact on his life.

THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED - A LEGENDARY COURSE

  • Release date March 18, 2017 on VOD (2h 00min)
  • By Bill Paxton
  • With Shia LaBeouf, Stephen Dillane, Peter Firth…
  • Genres Drama, Historical
  • Nationalities American, Canadian

Harry Vardon comes from a very modest background but shines in a sport generally reserved for the wealthy social classes: golf. A true prodigy, everyone encourages him to continue in this discipline but his father is against it… However, he continues and perseveres until reaching an exceptional level. Thus, he enrolled at the age of 20 for the US Open tournament.

TOMMY'S HONOR

  • By Jason Connery
  • With Peter Mullan, Jack Lowden, Sam Neill…
  • Genres Drama, Biopic
  • British nationality

"Tommy's Honor" is an American biopic about Tom Morris, the famous Scottish golf player and pioneer of the sport, born in 1821 and died in 1908. The story centers on his complex relationship with his son Tom, himself a follower. of this discipline and died very young at the age of 24. The man's greatest pride was to pass the torch to his son. But going after him was not that easy. The film is directed by comedian Jason Connery, son of Sean Connery aka James Bond and who previously signed "Gladiators". In the cast, Peter Mullan, seen in the two opus of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", Jack Lowden (the English TV series "War and peace"), Ophelia Lovibond ("Elementary") and Sam Neill ("The Extraordinary Adventures of an Apprentice Detective ”). This feature film was selected at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

SEVEN DAYS IN UTOPIA

  • Duration 1h 36min
  • By Matt Russell
  • With Lucas Black, Robert Duvall, Kathy Baker…
  • Genre Drama
  • Nationality American

After a disastrous start on the professional circuit, a young golfer finds himself strangely stranded in Utopia, Texas, where he is greeted by an eccentric old rancher.

THE CADDY - LOVE, DELIGHTS AND GOLF

  • By Jason Connery
  • With Peter Mullan, Jack Lowden,
  • Sam Neill ...
  • Genres Drama, Biopic
  • British nationality

Joe and Harvey are two golfers who team up for a round. No longer supporting the pressure, Harvey becomes Joe's caddy and trainer. But, Joe's ego becomes more and more important and the conflicts between the two wreak havoc on the competition.

BOBBY JONES: STROKE OF GENIUS - BOBBY JONES, BIRTH OF A LEGEND

  • By Rowdy Herrington
  • With Jim Caviezel, Claire Forlani, Jeremy Northam…
  • Genres Biopic, Drama, Romance
    Nationality American

Blessed with an excessive temperament and the victim of an illness that would normally have prevented him from playing golf, Robert "Bobby" Tire Jones Jr. has become, over the years, one of the sport's greatest legends. . Winner at only 28 years of the Grand Slam, which no other golfer has ever managed to accomplish since, he made history not only by his talent, but also by his ardor, his sense of honor and values

SAP

  • Director: John-Paul Davidson
  • Actors: José Luis Gutiérrez (Severiano Ballesteros), José Navar (Baldomero), Tiger Woods (himself), Nick Faldo (himself), Maria Molins (Carmen), Alvar Gordejuela (Baldomero Jr), Gary Player (himself) same), Ben Crenshaw (himself)
  • Music: Stephen Warbeck
  • Screenplay: Tom Hodgson

The life of Severiano Ballesteros, Spanish golf champion, from his humble childhood to his exceptional career, who participated in competitions alongside the biggest stars of the greens. Considered one of the greatest golfers of all time, Ballesteros died in 2011, aged 54…

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