There are three golf movies that share a certain kinship – a cinematic triptych if you will–bound by a meticulous obsession with period costume, a romanticised vision of golf’s golden era and a determination to use golf as a clumsy metaphor for the struggle of life.
These themes were first established in The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) and later rehashed in The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005), which itself built on the legacy of this treacly trilogy’s unloved middle child and the only one of the three featuring a colon in its title – Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004) – henceforth to be known as BJ:SoG.
The opening act of this Jones biopic establishes Bobby as a sickly child with a stern but caring mother and
