Fletchy

I can think of a few US films featuring golf as a major part of the story, and some biopics of golfers.

I can't think of any British films where golf features very much. There is a golf scene in Goldfinger, but this is only a small part of the story.

Any ideas? I would quite like to find some.

ProfMarcus

Dead Of Night springs to mind.

. . . and new thumbscrews for me . . .

GRAEME

I can think of a good reason why that might be...

Golf is pretty tedious to watch. Playing it is ok.

Who wants a whole movie based around golf? Dynamic, not.

Still there is quite a funny golf sequence in Norman Wisdom's The Early Bird, when I come to think of it!

CaptainWaggett

I watched Dead of Night for the zillionth time the other day. It does look as if Naunton Wayne is doing his own playing, getting quite a long putt in, though I don't think Basil Radford is seen doing his own shots.

There's a golf match involving John Le Mesurier in The Early Bird.

GRAEME

That'll be the one I mentioned a minute before you did!

batman

I thought Kevin Costner's US golf film Tin Cup was quite good.

At the start of Park Plaza 605 Tom Conway kills a carrier pigeon while playing golf, thus starting the story.

I wish I had claws.

penfold

There was some bunker action in one of the Confessions series....Lynda Bellingham was involved IIRC

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

CaptainWaggett

More of Messrs Radford and Wayne - a key plot point in Night Train to Munich is that Charters has left his golf clubs with his chum Max in Berlin. It's when trying to phone him, that Charters overhears Paul Henreid revealing his suspicions of Rex Harrison. Sadly, he never does get the clubs back.

I remember a Francis Durbridge tv series in which it runs out that bullet wounds and golf ball wounds are nearly impossible to tell apart. Hmm...

needals

There's a bit of golf in 'Reach for the Sky' with kenneth More and Muriel Pavlov

Fletchy

Yes, I do now remember the scene in Reach for the Sky, important for showing Douglas Bader's determination to succeed at everything.

I didn't expect any films following a golf match as a storyline. I thought there may be something where the main character is a golfer or caddy, or perhaps some story set around a golf club e.g. PG Wodehouse type comedy.

By the way, golf isn't tedious to watch. Go to the Open Championship and experience the atmosphere e.g. Carnoustie 1999, now that would make a film!

CaptainWaggett

There aren't that many films of Wodehouse but at least one episode of Wodehouse Playhouse centres on a golf match.

DB7

Rhubarb Rhubarb and Goldfinger spring to mind of British films. From the US there's the Caddyshack series and Happy Gilmore.

batman

There's another US one with Robert Wagner .... Banning.

I wish I had claws.

DB7

And Keeping Mum with Patrick Swayze's lecherous golf pro.

hankoler

CADDYSHACK comes to mind and the one with SPENCER TRACY and KATHRINE HEPBURN in , but I can't remember what it was called.