As a follow up to my post on the Best Golf Movies, I decided to make a list of the best golf movies yet to be made. I’ve come up with titles, and a quick plot summary.

The Haig:
A biopix of Walter Hagen. Walter Hagen invents the concept of the professional golfer as he wines and dines his way around the world, wining major championships and losing wives. Hagen as appeared as a character in several recent golf films, including Bagger Vance, Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius and The Greatest Game Ever Played.

Payne
A biopix of Payne Stewart. Professional golfer known for his troubles and temper finds peace with his family and religion, wins the US Open and suffers an untimely death.

Slammin Sammy
A biopix of Sam Snead a hayseed from western Virginia who learns golf playing with sticks and rocks goes on to become the winningest golfer of all time.

Babe:
Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins Olympic gold, then goes on to win 82 tournaments as a professional golfer. She was just 42 when she died of cancer in 1956. sure to be a tearjerker.

Fairway To Heaven
Or a film adaptation of any other of Roberta Isleib’s novels about mystery solving journeyman golfer Cassie Burdette.

Flatbellies
From the novel by A.B. Hollingsworth about a group of guys who grow up together in Oklahoma and go on to win the state golf title. Think Hoosiers for golf.

The King and Queen
A love story about Arnold Palmer and his beloved Winnie.

Leave a comment and let me know how you’d cast these. Or offer your own movie suggestions.

On Saturday, I did an interview with a reporter on golf movies. He wanted to know what makes a good golf movie. The answer: the same thing that makes any movie good—good characters and a good story.

Since its been a while since I updated my post on golf movies, I thought I’d better do so ahead of the article:

GolfBlgoger’s Best Golf Movies
This is by no means a comprehensive list of golf movies, but only counts those I have actually seen. It also is limited to movies that have golf as a primary plot point.

1. The Greatest Game Ever Played

A faithful adaptation of the book that plays well on the big screen. Its no wonder, the author, Mark Frost, once wrote the tv series Hill Street Blues. The casting is perfect and the story compelling. It’s the original David and Goliath sports story. There are a lot of subtle bits in this movie , though, that people who didn’t read the book will miss. For example, the book goes into a great deal on the class conflict between the professionals and the amateurs. If you didn’t read the book, you’ll miss the point that the professionals are always referred to by their first names—Harry Vardon—while the amateurs are referred to with a honorific—Mr. Ouimet.

2. Dead Solid Perfect

Based on the Dan Jenkins novel, this originally appeared on cable. It follows a struggling professional golfer—played by Randy Quaid—as he travels about on tour. Very funny.

3. Tin Cup

This Kevin Costner movie is like Bull Durham for golf. Costner plays a washed up driving range pro who decides to play in the US Open to win the heart of a girl. It’s most famous for the scene where he plunks ball after ball into a pond on the last hole of the Open. It’s a good romantic comedy.

I'm starting to make my Christmas List and thought I'd add some golf movies to it. Here's my list of the top golf movies. Do you have any to add?

1. Dead Solid Perfect
2. Tin Cup
3. Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius 
4. Follow The Sun
5. Bagger Vance
6. Caddyshack
7. A Gentleman's Game
(and, a far, far distant 8)
8. Happy Gilmore.

Actually, I don't want Happy Gilmore. I despise Adam Sandler. I guess it's my age, but I don't find him funny.