Golf on the Big Screen – Proof Is In the Dollars?
Back on August 4th we wrote a blog on the greatest golf movies of all time based in part on information at http://www.sportsinmovies.com. Recently we found a list of the box office proceeds of recent golf movies. With a big thank you to GolfWorld the list is as follows;
Tin Cup – $53,854,588
Happy Gilmore – $41,205,099
Caddyshack – $39,846,344
The Legend of Baggar Vance – $39,459,427
Caddyshack II – $11,798,302
The Greatest Game Ever Played – $15,431,177
Who’s Your Caddy – $5,713,425
Seven Days in Utopia – $3,588,000
Bobby Jones: Stokes of Genius – $2,707,913
Obviously this list does not include all of the greatest movies ever in our previous blog as some of them are quite old. However the box office proceeds listed above are pathetic.
What is it about golf that does not resonate on the big screen? It is an elitist sport, the game does not lend itself to a good movie story or is the problem that the scripts just simply are bad?
We are struggling for an answer. We would love to hear our reader’s opinion on the subject
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As always keep ‘em in the fairway.
P.S. Has anyone ever seen Par 6?
