The 10 best golf scenes in non-golf films

Golf has been a feature of many movies over the years, from Caddyshack to Tin Cup, but this beautiful game of ours is also ever-present as window-dressing in other films. Kevin Markham picks the 10 best movies where golf makes a brief but telling appearance.

The 10 best golf scenes in non-golf films

1. Goldfinger

Probably the best-known golf scene of any movie pits, Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) against Bond (Sean Connery) for a round at Stoke Park Golf Club. The action kicks off when Bond drops a gold bar beside the hole on the 16th green, causing Goldfinger to miss a simple tap-in. Goldfinger then proposes a bet for the gold bar and both men resort to skulduggery to win the match: first when Oddjob ‘finds’ his boss’s ball in the rough after dropping a replacement down his trouser leg; and then Bond switches Goldfinger’s ball as they walk off the 17th green… causing Goldfinger to lose the match on the 18th green seconds after Bond had missed a putt for a half. Showing the film’s age (1964), Bond was playing with a Penfold Heart; Goldfinger used a Slazenger 279. In the following scene, Oddjob crushes the Slazenger ball in his hand. No wonder sales of the Penfold Heart soared after the film was released.

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