When it comes to golf movies, most immediately go to Caddyshack, the cult classic from 1980 (don’t mention the sequel). After that there is a list quite long of others that try to garner that top spot.
So what is the best golf movie?
Tin Cup
Greatest Game Ever Played
Happy Gilmore
Legend of Bagger Vance
Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
From the Rough
Others?
What are your favorites and who takes the top spot?
The 2nd one should never have been made. Happy Gilmore is a fun time but not the same as Caddyshack.
Caddyshack
Tin Cup
Happy Gilmore
In that order. The others are fine, but just not something I would seek out, or probably even watch if it is on.
To this day I’m proud I haven’t seen Tin Cup, this causes much consternation with a couple of my golfing friends
Tin Cup
Caddyshack
Greatest Game Ever Played
I’ve never heard of that
It’s based on the book by Dan Jenkins. It’s a book written in the mid 70s and there is no way it could made into a movie today.
2. Happy Gilmore (seen it too many times however)
3. Caddy shack
4. Tin Cup
I’m going to find it and watch it
On a related note we used to go to a Cincinnati Reds game every summer when I was growing up. I would always get a program. One year they had some kind of question in there about favorite golf movie from all the guys on the team that played golf. One of them said "Favorite Golf Movie: Caddyshack" and also "Least Favorite Golf Movie: Caddyshack 2". I remember LOL’ing even in the early 90’s.
I’ve seen Caddyshack and find it horribly overrated. Bagger Vance and Greatest Game apparently didn’t make much of an impression on me since I saw them long ago, haven’t watched them again, and barely remember anything about them. I’ve only seen Tin Cup once, but I’ve been meaning to watch it again since I actually play golf now.
Tin Cup
Legend of Bagger Vance
Caddyshack
Need to step up my game
No such thing!
I saw Dead Solid Perfect referenced a few times. I much preferred Jenkin’s book to the attempt to make it a movie. Loved that book. It was the first fictional golf book I read when I was taking up the game way back in the 70s.
Oh dear Lord, no.
Good book, but worst movie Robert Duvall ever appeared in for sure.
Less so with Happy Gilmore, however I’ve seen that movie about 1,000 times.
If I never saw Caddyshack again, I wouldn’t be sad about it at all.
To be fair the book never really was turned into a movie.
That movie would be my pick as well, but outside of the title and that it is about golf there aren’t a whole lot of similarities. The main character doesn’t even have the same name.
I don’t think there would be that much trouble turning the actual book into one of those streaming mini-series if someone really wanted to. There isn’t that much that would need cut. The whole weird attempted rape scene that sort of comes out of nowhere would be a bit much. And some racial slurs….
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As to anyone that wants to find a copy, well…. It was an HBO movie from the late 80s and it never officially made it to DVD as I recall. There are or were some chopped up crappy versions on youtube and probably some pirate DVDs or used vhs out there somewhere.
Maybe it could wind up in HBOs back catalogue or something.
Is Peter Jacobsen the winningest real world golfer in fictional movie tournaments?
He wins a fictional US open in Tin Cup, and wins a fictional Colonial in Dead Solid Perfect. I can’t think of any other golfer with a win in a fictional tournament off the top of my head, much less two.
Bagger Vance
Tin Cup
Caddy Shack
in that order.