I always get sucked into several, but mine is probably "The Greatest Game Ever Played", telling the Francis Ouimet US open story.


Also get sucked in to these whenever they are on:
-Caddyshack
-Tin Cup
-Legend of Bagger Vance
-Happy Gilmore

7 days in Utopia.

Tommy's Honour!

Ol' Tommy Morris golfs so hard that it becomes life and he literally freezes to death while playing the sport.

Tin Cup by a long shot.

Dead Solid Perfect was pretty good. Not top of the list, but deserves to be on this thread.

Tin Cup
Happy Gilmore

It's a spa

Caddyshack…please

Sports movies are hard to do well. Caddyshack is probably my favorite golf movie, but I gotta be honest, it really doesn't hold up all that well. I think it benefits from "it's cool to like Caddyshack". But most everything else sucks enough to still be behind it.

Baseball has Major League and Field of Dreams. Basketball has Hoosiers. Boxing has Rocky. At least in my book, neither football or golf have anything close to those.

I've seen Caddyshack I don't know how many times ans still laugh just as hard today as the first time I ever saw it.

The Shank Ag said:

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I always get sucked into several, but mine is probably "The Greatest Game Ever Played", telling the Francis Ouimet US open story.


Also get sucked in to these whenever they are on:
-Caddyshack
-Tin Cup
-Legend of Bagger Vance
-Happy Gilmore

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These really are the only five golf movies worth watching. Greatest Game Ever Played is my favorite too. It's a great story and Paxton did a good job telling it in a film despite some embellishments.

If you read golf books, The Match, written by the same author of Greatest Game Ever Played is an awesome read.

Caddy shack.

Tin cup by a mile

Well, if you can remove the sexual overtones and add a golf theme, then Romeo, I am your Juliet.

Tin Cup







Happy Gilmore











everything else...

No love for The Greatest Game Ever Played?

I'm not sure which is my favorite but I like all the ones already mentioned (and the one I just mentioned).

It's mentioned as the OPs favorite in the very first sentence of the thread

Best golf movie of all time - Caddyshack
Worst golf movie of all time - Caddyshack 2

Wow, I missed that somehow.

Tin Cup

Legend of Bagger Vance
Happy Gilmore
7 days in Utopia/The Greatest Game Ever Played
Caddyshack



Worst one I have ever seen that hasn't been posted yet is The Squeeze. Might be the worst filmed/acting movie I have ever seen.

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius is enjoyable.

Milwaukees Best Light said:

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Dead Solid Perfect was pretty good. Not top of the list, but deserves to be on this thread........

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Great movie.....some funny one-liners

Free to watch on youtube:

Goldfinger (Odd Job on the bag)

For shame fellow Texans, "Follow the Sun" is the appropriate answer. Mister Hogan blows cigarette smoke in your general direction!

Trucker 96 said:

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Sports movies are hard to do well. Caddyshack is probably my favorite golf movie, but I gotta be honest, it really doesn't hold up all that well. I think it benefits from "it's cool to like Caddyshack". But most everything else sucks enough to still be behind it.

Baseball has Major League and Field of Dreams. Basketball has Hoosiers. Boxing has Rocky. At least in my book, neither football or golf have anything close to those.

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How does Caddyshack "not hold up"

It's really unfortunate that Golf in the Kingdom is such a terrible movie. Especially since the book is really great.

The book is great

Didn't know there was a movie

Here's to the finely tuned athlete on the verge of greatness

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