In 1913, unheralded 20-year-old amateur Francis Ouimet completed a remarkable U.S Open victory in a playoff against Harry Vardon and Ted Ray. As Bernard Darwin wrote in a contemporary report it was ‘…one David against two Goliaths’. But was it – as Disney claims – The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)? Or is this film’s title the most egregious case of false advertising since Lionel Hutz sued The Never-Ending Story (1984)?
is based on the much-loved book of the same name by Mark Frost, who also wrote the screenplay. Frost’s trilogy of golf books , and are quintessential expressions of a sports writing genre that might be
