Bad golf in great movies.

[John Kavanaugh]

Just watched Ordinary People. There is a scene where MTM is finishing up a round with her husband and another couple. After putting out on the 18th and discussing this and that on the green you notice several other holes cut. Obviously shot on the practice putting green for the sake of the members. Thank God...that mistake may be the only thing that kept me from slitting my wrists.

[Mark Bourgeois]

Does it count if the golf is solo? In which case I nominate the Mt Fuji golf scene in "Lost in Translation" (which actually might be the best golf scene in a great movie).

[Peter Pallotta]

It's too bad we can't be friends any more, Mark - not even just internet friends. All the best to you.

No one ever mentions The Caddy, a mid 50s Martin and Lewis picture. Not as good as That's My Boy, but well done: with nice songs, a charming love interest, Dean Martin golfing, and Jerry Lewis as a caddy -- you know, dropping clubs as he stumbles along chasing after Dean.
Peter

[Michael Moore]

Sideways, of course.

[JMEvensky]

The Golf Specialist and The Dentist - WC Fields

[Don Jordan]

John Candy hit some nice 5 wood's in Uncle Buck...

[Ronald Montesano]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSjSrAmExFA

Does it count if the golf is solo? In which case I nominate the Mt Fuji golf scene in "Lost in Translation" (which actually might be the best golf scene in a great movie).

[Jud_T]

Swingers, of course:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TscPOjzk0hI

[Ronald Montesano]

That's fantastic. Freaking Goofy.

Swingers, of course:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TscPOjzk0hI

[Bill Shamleffer]

The great Japanese director Ozu, has golf pop up in subtle ways in some of his movies.  In his last movie, from the 1960s, The Autumn Afternoon, his son receives some new Macgregor woods.  In one of his films from the late 50s, Equinox Flowers, the father has a scene with a traditional Japanese businessmen's day at the country club.


By the way, his films are GREAT.  But be forewarned, they can be very subtle.

[Mark Bourgeois]

It's too bad we can't be friends any more, Mark - not even just internet friends. All the best to you.

No one ever mentions The Caddy, a mid 50s Martin and Lewis picture. Not as good as That's My Boy, but well done: with nice songs, a charming love interest, Dean Martin golfing, and Jerry Lewis as a caddy -- you know, dropping clubs as he stumbles along chasing after Dean.
Peter

If you have to explain a joke...(the parenthetical remark is my actual opinion)

And now, at the risk of destroying whatever relationship capital I hopefully just rebuilt: there's a reason no one ever mentions The Caddy. 

[Ryan Hillenbrand]

If bad golf in a bad movie - my vote goes to Matt Damon in Bagger Vance

[Ronald Montesano]

It's the 18th at Oakmont.

...on the green you notice several other holes cut. Obviously shot on the practice putting green ...

[BHoover]

If bad golf in a bad movie - my vote goes to Matt Damon in Bagger Vance

Whenever it's on Golf Channel, I watch.

[John Kavanaugh]

It's the 18th at Oakmont.

...on the green you notice several other holes cut. Obviously shot on the practice putting green ...

I doubt it. If you love MTM, as I once did, do not watch.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtpggmYkL8w

[Kalen Braley]

I'm with Ryan on this one.  Even though I liked the movie, Damon's swing in BaggerVance is awful.  No way he's breaking 90 with that swing, much less a pro golfer...


P.S.  Also loved the sideways reference, one of the few golf related scenes where they totally keep it real.  I have a buddy who loves to dole out swing advice all the time and I can relate to that blow up moment where Miles tells Jack to just STFU!!

[Ira Fishman]

Best golf in mediocre movie--Banning.

[Garland Bayley]

Sideways, of course.

That would be bad golf in a really bad movie.

[Rich Goodale]

Brian Keith at Pebble Beach in "The Parent Trap"?

[Duncan Cheslett]

"Golf isn't the national game of Korea, yet!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GMzNJNDmdM




Connery wasn't a golfer when he filmed these scenes, but it seems the experience inspired a deep love of the game.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/golf/2614659/Goldfinger-inspired-Sean-Connerys-lifelong-love-affair-with-golf-golf.html

[cary lichtenstein]

I hate bad swings of these actors in movies, it totally spoils the movie for me

[Ira Fishman]

Undistinguished actor but great golfer--Jack Wagner.

[Peter Pallotta]

Undistinguished actor but great golfer--Jack Wagner.

A sure sign that one is getting older, which may or may not be the same as becoming more mature:
Years ago, if that were me, I'd have found the thought appalling. Nowadays, I'd take that trade-off in a New York minute!

[Kalen Braley]

Undistinguished actor but great golfer--Jack Wagner.

A sure sign that one is getting older, which may or may not be the same as becoming more mature:
Years ago, if that were me, I'd have found the thought appalling. Nowadays, I'd take that trade-off in a New York minute!

He's a svelt guy who can golf his ball, how did he never get cast in a golf movie? Did Melrose Place really kill his career?  He was only playing a douchebag Dr, doubt he's one in real life.


 He would have been far more believable than Johnson or Costner in the rusty cup...

[Ira Fishman]

And Katherine Hepburn would have been better than both of them.