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      <title><![CDATA[The 6 best golf movies of all time, according to a golf-loving film expert]]></title>
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<html><body><p class="first">Mark Ellis has been playing golf for most of his life. Same goes for watching movies, a passion and expertise that he has spun into a co-hosting gig on the podcast <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rotten-tomatoes-is-wrong-a-podcast-from-rotten-tomatoes/id1530648964">Rotten Tomatoes is Wrong</a>. </p>



<p>Given his background, Ellis is uniquely suited to rating golf films so we hit him up for his faves. Here&rsquo;s his ranking of the 6 best golf movies of all time.  </p>



<p><em><a href="https://golf.com/lifestyle/why-good-golf-movies-hard-make/">Click here for more of Ellis&rsquo; takes on the highs and lows of golf films. </a></em></p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">6. Dead Solid Perfect</h3>



<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a great story about an outsider trying to break through. It&rsquo;s almost like seeing <a href="https://golf.com/lifestyle/celebrities/play-pebble-beach-pro-am-alongside-bill-murray/">Bill Murray</a> win at the <a href="https://golf.com/lifestyle/celebrities/play-pebble-beach-pro-am-alongside-bill-murray/">pro-am at Pebble Beach</a>.&rdquo;</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">5. The Legend of Bagger Vance</h3>



<p>&ldquo;I enjoy the caddie/mentor relationship, and Bruce McGill as Walter Hagen is as good as it gets.&rdquo;</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">4. The Greatest Game Ever Played</h3>



<p>&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t go wrong with the story of Francis Ouimet. Talk about the ultimate outsider and underdog.&rdquo;</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">3. Tin Cup</h3>



<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a wonderful love story, and also the best portrayal I&rsquo;ve seen of the caddie/player relationship. The only reason I put &lsquo;Happy Gilmore&rsquo; ahead of it is that I can watch &lsquo;Happy Gilmore&rsquo; over and over, and still enjoy it. When I rewatch &lsquo;Tin Cup,&rsquo; I enjoy it, but I cannot stomach seeing Roy McAvoy losing the U.S. Open every time.&rdquo;</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">2. Happy Gilmore</h3>



<p>&ldquo;I love that they took the actual swing and made it a side character that creates so much of the comedy and tells you so much about the film. Also: Shooter McGavin is a great villain.&rdquo;</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-1-caddyshack">1. Caddyshack</h3>



<p>&ldquo;You have such iconic characters, and scene after scene that so many of us practically know by heart, for good reason.</p>



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      <title><![CDATA[Why golf movies are so hard to get right, according to a Rotten Tomatoes expert]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>Mark Ellis, co-host of the podcast Rotten Tomatoes is Wrong, knows both golf and movies. We picked his brain on the intersection of the two. </p>
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<html><body><p class="first">Golf has been the subject of a great many movies, so it&rsquo;s got that going for it. Too bad many of those movies have been less than great. How to separate the clunkers from the gems? Rotten Tomatoes, the review aggregation website for film and television, can be a useful filter.</p>



<p>So can Mark Ellis, comedian, actor and co-host of the podcast <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rotten-tomatoes-is-wrong-a-podcast-from-rotten-tomatoes/id1530648964">Rotten Tomatoes is Wrong</a>. </p>



<p>Ellis took up golf as a kid, which is also when he started watching movies. Lots of movies. If it&rsquo;s been on screen, odds are Ellis has seen it, thought about it and opined about it, either on his podcast, or from a barstool.</p>



<p>In deference to his deep cinematic knowledge, GOLF.com asked Ellis for his take on the genre of golf movies, along with his view of its highs and lows.</p>



<p>(<em><a href="https://golf.com/lifestyle/6-best-golf-movies-all-time/">Click here</a> for Ellis&rsquo; personal ranking of the 6 best golf movies of all time.</em>)</p>


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<p><strong>GOLF.com: Tell us, why are most golf movies so lackluster?</strong></p>



<p>Ellis: I wouldn&rsquo;t go that far. But I do think that golf is hard to dramatize on the big screen because it&rsquo;s already so cinematic. The camera shots are so beautiful, and nowadays, they get so close up. You see the players and their expressions, the sweat on their brows. You cut to the gallery, with the parents watching, and then to the scoreboard, then back to the player. Think about <a href="https://golf.com/news/tournaments/jack-nicklaus-revisits-jab-motivated-him-win-1986-masters/">Jack Nicklaus winning the Masters in &rsquo;86</a>. You don&rsquo;t need a movie because it already is one. Or Tiger Woods and Bob May battling at the PGA. It&rsquo;s like &ldquo;Rocky.&rdquo; The underdog pushes the favorite to the brink. You can&rsquo;t write a better script than that.</p>







<p><strong>GOLF.com: Another thing that seems tricky is that it&rsquo;s hard to replicate a great golf swing. We&rsquo;re asked to believe that some guy in the movie is, say, Harry Varden, when his swing looks like the action of a 10 handicap. Would you agree that&rsquo;s a problem for golf movies?</strong></p>



<p>Ellis: Honestly, that can be a challenge in any sports movie. But I agree that it&rsquo;s tough. That&rsquo;s why I&rsquo;d like to see a golf movie with Tom Cruise or Daniel Day Lewis. One of those method guys who dives into the character with such commitment. Let&rsquo;s see what kind of swing they can learn.</p>



<p><strong>GOLF.com: Is there anything the best golf movies have in common?</strong></p>



<p>Ellis: What&rsquo;s true of golf movies is true of sports movies in general. The best ones use the sport to tell a bigger story about life. They&rsquo;re usually about an underdog or an outlier who is easy to root for. In golf, the two tentpoles are &ldquo;<a href="https://golf.com/lifestyle/caddyshack-original-ending/">Caddyshack</a>&rdquo; and <a href="https://golf.com/lifestyle/celebrities/the-best-tin-cup-easter-egg-you-didnt-know-existed/">&ldquo;Tin Cup.&rdquo;</a> With Roy McAvoy, you&rsquo;ve got a guy with a lot of potential, but then life got the better of him, along with a great villain (Don Johnson&rsquo;s David Simms) who represents what a lot of people think of as the typical elitist golfer. In &ldquo;Caddyshack,&rdquo; the same dynamic is at work. You&rsquo;ve got four characters, three of whom are completely out of place: Rodney Dangerfield, <a href="https://golf.com/lifestyle/celebrities/play-pebble-beach-pro-am-alongside-bill-murray/">Bill Murray</a> and Chevy Chase. And then Judge Smails.</p>



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<p><strong>GOLF.com: Of those four, who in your opinion is the best character?</strong></p>



<p>Ellis: The best character in &ldquo;Caddyshack&rdquo; is the best character in any golf movie: Judge Smails. Ted Knight gives such an iconic performance. I&rsquo;ve never seen a better portrayal of a golf villain.</p>



<p><strong>GOLF.com: What about the best scene in a golf movie?</strong></p>



<p>Ellis: The Happy Gilmore-Bob Barker brawl is right up there. But I&rsquo;m going to go with &ldquo;Caddyshack&rdquo; again. The scene where Al Czervik first shows up and he&rsquo;s going through the pro shop at Bushwood, making fun of absolutely everything.</p>



<p><strong>GOLF.com: What about the worst golf movie?</strong></p>



<p>Ellis: &ldquo;Caddyshack 2&rdquo; and it&rsquo;s not even close. Never mind the worst golf movie. It might be the worst movie of all time. It&rsquo;s an uppercut to anyone who likes golf or comedy. It makes me like a legend like Jackie Mason a bit less. And Dan Ackroyd &mdash; he&rsquo;s a comedic genius. But in &ldquo;Caddyshack 2&rdquo; he is doing a version of Bill Murray&rsquo;s greenskeeper and you just feel bad for him. It has a four percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I have no idea how it got that four percent rating. It should be zero.</p>



<p><strong>GOLF.com: Any golf movie that you think still needs to be made?</strong></p>



<p>Ellis: I&rsquo;m waiting for a movie that captures the spirit, drama and competitiveness of mini golf.</p>



<p><em><a href="https://golf.com/lifestyle/6-best-golf-movies-all-time/">Click here</a> for Ellis&rsquo; personal ranking of the 6 best golf movies of all time.</em></p>


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<html><body><p class="first"><em>As 2020 comes to a close and we turn the page to 2021, GOLF staffers are taking a minute to reflect on &hellip; whatever they want. Welcome to 20 for 20.</em></p>



<p>What is a <a href="https://golf.com/instruction/driving/editors-picks-3-products-im-using-to-boost-my-swing-speed/">New Year&rsquo;s resolution</a> but a well-intentioned promise, destined to be broken? </p>



<p>As someone whose follow-through in life is nearly as poor as it is with his driver, I have a lengthy history of not making good on those annual vows. This year was no different. As evidence, I give you the 20 golf-related pledges I made to myself at the start of 2020, every single one of which has gone unfulfilled. My goal for 2021? This list, again.</p>





<h3 class="wp-block-heading">20 broken New Year&rsquo;s golf resolutions from 2020</h3>



<p>1. To stop asking random people for swing tips.</p>



<p>2. To stop offering swing tips to random people.</p>



<p>3. To practice once a week.</p>



<p>4. To buy a round for the house.</p>



<p>5. To play in the city championship.</p>



<p>6. To adopt a <a href="https://golf.com/instruction/fitness/3-keys-playing-cold-fitness-expert/">stretching routine</a>.</p>



<p>7. To get back to <a href="https://golf.com/travel/personal-course-rankings-golf-top-100/">Cruden Bay</a>.</p>



<p>8. To play in the <a href="https://golf.com/travel/best-golf-courses-oregon-2020-2021-ranking/">Bandon Dunes</a> dawn-to-dark summer solstice event.</p>



<p>9. To quote <em>Caddyshack </em>a little less often.</p>



<p>10. To be the ball.</p>


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<p>11. To swing with conviction, every single time, without the slightest worry about the results.</p>



<p>12. To get my kids into golf (I tried, seriously, I did).</p>



<p>13. To stop talking to my partner&rsquo;s golf ball.</p>



<p>14. To stop promising to stop talking to my partner&rsquo;s ball because, really, what does it hurt if I talk to a golf ball?</p>



<p>15. To tell someone who gets mad when I talk to their golf ball that they are being completely insane.</p>



<p>16. To install a backyard putting green.</p>



<p>17. To install an indoor hitting bay.</p>



<p>18. To never, ever make excuses for my game.</p>



<p>19. To play in an LPGA pro-am.</p>



<p>20. To recognize, finally, after 21 years of marriage, that my wife is not the slightest bit interested in hearing about my golf game, and to act accordingly.</p>


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      <title><![CDATA[How this obsessed 'Caddyshack' fan celebrated the film in a new light]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>Jeff Nelligan loved Caddyshack so much, its script became his scripture. His plan for a literary tribute was put on hold for years. Now, finally, it's here.</p>
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<html><body><p class="first">In the summer of 1980, Jeff Nelligan, a casual golfer fresh out of college, went to see a new release at his local Cineplex. On the face of it, the film concerned itself with a motley cast of characters at a country club. But on a deeper level, it was also a story about class divides, teen pregnancy, pest control, the perils of candy bars in swimming pools, and the adolescent humor of bodily noises that sound like someone stepping on a duck.</p>



<p>So it had that going for it, along with this: Nelligan liked it. Check that. He <em>loved</em> it.</p>



<p>&ldquo;I thought it was the greatest movie ever made,&rdquo; he says today.</p>



<p>Nelligan watched <em><a href="https://golf.com/lifestyle/mistakes-film-tv-golf-scenes-only-golfer-notice/">Caddyshack</a></em>, again and again. He also quoted it, over and over. Its script became his scripture, and he didn&rsquo;t only cite it when he was on the links. Carl Spackler-isms speckled his everyday exchanges. Al Czervik wisecracks crept into his water-cooler talk.</p>


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<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d use them as ice-breakers,&rdquo; Nelligan says. &ldquo;But mostly it was just because I couldn&rsquo;t help myself.&rdquo;</p>



<p>The reactions he got proved that he was not alone. People didn&rsquo;t merely understand his references. They laughed at them, even people who had never swung a club. Many of those non-golfers fired back with <em>Caddyshack</em> riffs of their own.</p>



<p>&ldquo;It was hard to find a person who wasn&rsquo;t familiar with the movie,&rdquo; Nelligan says. &ldquo;It was amazing how quickly it had become this odd cultural icon.&rdquo;</p>



<p>In the late 1980s, after a brief career as a newspaper reporter, Nelligan settled in the Washington D.C. area, landing work as a congressional aide on Capitol Hill. George H.W. Bush was in the Oval Office, and the Beltway was in a Bushwood state of mind. In otherwise dry legislative meetings, stone-faced functionaries would slip, out of nowhere, into Ty Webb deadpan. Long-shot political campaigns were hailed as &ldquo;Cinderella stories.&rdquo; Senior members of important committees would cap dull presentations by noting, &ldquo;which is nice!&rdquo;</p>



<p>In this <em>Caddyshack</em>-mad climate, a thought burrowed, gopher-like, into Nelligan&rsquo;s brain: he should compose a literary tribute, an enduring totem that would celebrate his years-long ardor for the movie while helping fans relive its most memorable scenes.</p>



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<p>Not that he sprang into action on that impulse. Instead, he let the idea gnaw at him for decades. Time wore on.</p>



<p>Nelligan raised three <em>Caddyshack</em>-loving sons into adulthood, juggling fatherhood with a busy career while earning a Georgetown law degree at night. Over that same period, he published two books (one a cheeky self-help treatise for aspiring politicians, the other an account of how he brought up his kids &ldquo;to be bad-asses&rdquo;), without spilling an ounce of ink on his favorite film.</p>



<p>Then, one day he woke up and it was 2020. His 61st birthday was approaching &#8213; and the 40th anniversary of <em>Caddyshack</em>. Nelligan realized it was now or never.</p>



<p>&ldquo;So I sat out on the porch with a case of Red Bull and a pack of Marlboros,&rdquo; says Nelligan, who currently works in communications for the Food &amp; Drug Administration. &ldquo;And I knocked that sucker out.&rdquo;</p>



<p>The result, which Nelligan self-published this fall, is <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Synergistic-Character-Modalities-Caddyshack/dp/B08M2G21ZB/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=">Be the Ball: An Academic Inquiry into Synergistic Character Modalities in Caddyshack &amp; Back Nine Bushwood Paradigms</a></em>. As its labored subtitle suggests, the book is structured as a doctoral dissertation, and written in tortured academese. Like the faux on-course philosophizing in the movie, the puffed-up prose parodies itself. That it also appears under the imprint of &ldquo;Faber College&rdquo; (a nod to Animal House, Nelligan&rsquo;s second-favorite movie) further underscores the satirical tone.</p>



<p>&ldquo;Is (<em>Caddyshack</em>) a triumphalist masterpiece, an unequalled cinematic tour de force relying on a sublime mix of drama, pathos and wit that announces a cinematic New Enlightenment?&rdquo; Nelligan asks in his &ldquo;abstract,&rdquo; the Ivory Tower&rsquo;s version of an introduction. &ldquo;Or is the film an utterly base form of juvenilia, a retrograde jumble of low-brow one-liners whose popularity presages an irretrievable Western cultural decline.&rdquo;</p>



<p>Weighty observations. And Nelligan keeps the heavy stuff coming for upwards of 100 pages, larding his language with terms like &ldquo;metanarrative,&rdquo; &ldquo;thematic tautologies&rdquo; and &ldquo;hermeneutic feminist marginalization.&rdquo; Along the way, he recounts <em>Caddyshack&rsquo;s</em> key plot points and details the movie&rsquo;s landmark moments while offering cartoonishly pompous insights into the main characters, their motivations and what they represent.</p>



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<p>In Nelligan&rsquo;s depiction, Judge Elihu Smails emerges not only as an arrogant windbag but also as &ldquo;a quintessential Byronic Anti-Hero.&rdquo; Al Czervik, for his part, takes shape as something more than a gauche New Money goofball. There is, in fact, &ldquo;a deeper shallowness&rdquo; to him, Nelligan informs us, a &ldquo;Rodent Intersectionality&rdquo; that transforms Czervik into a metaphor for the film&rsquo;s destructive buck-tooth varmint: he&rsquo;s an intruder, bent on ruining the grounds.</p>



<p>Oh, and by the way, Ty Webb is in &ldquo;a Freudian Oedipal id-ego relationship&rdquo; with the judge.</p>



<p>Of course, if you give any of this credence, you have missed the point. Be the Ball is a work of intellectual jiu-jitsu that applies the most self-serious of disciplines to a lark of a movie in order to elevate the latter while gently mocking the former. And, according to its author, the whole thing should be read with a grain of salt.</p>



<p>After all these years, Nelligan still seriously loves <em>Caddyshack</em>. &ldquo;But I hope no one take this book seriously,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Not one bit.&rdquo;</p>



<p><em>Copies of </em>Be the Ball: An Academic Inquiry Into Synergistic Character Modalities in Caddyshack &amp; Back Nine Bushwood Paradigms<em>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Synergistic-Character-Modalities-Caddyshack/dp/B08M2G21ZB/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=">can be purchased here</a>. Orders do not come with a free bowl of soup.</em></p>


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<p>The golfers were a lot more serious on Tuesday than they were on Monday, including Danny Balin <a href="https://golf.com/news/caddyshack-star-michael-okeefe-wish-us-open/">the club pro who was kind enough to let me be his caddie</a> for the first two practice days of the 120th U.S. Open. I carried his bag for nine holes, but then his regular caddie took over.</p>



<p>&ldquo;Play like you&rsquo;re playing today,&rdquo; he told Danny.</p>



<p>Totally get it. The movie set is the same. People fool around until it is time to get into character. The players at <a href="https://golf.com/news/observations-winged-foot-readies-us-open/">Winged Foot</a> were getting into character for the drama that awaits them come <a href="https://golf.com/news/2020-us-open-tee-times-round-1/">Thursday morning</a>.</p>


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<p>For me, sadly, the drama is over. Those two days of caddying for Danny went by fast. Too fast. When I said goodbye to my boss and his actual caddie, I choked up.</p>



<p>I didn&rsquo;t expect to get so emotional, but it makes sense. I grew up on this course, and this week whenever I was able to break away from the task at hand, I reflected back on those moments. There are other memories, too, like last year when we celebrated my mother&rsquo;s 90th birthday party at Winged Foot. She passed away in July.</p>



<p>The emotions also have to do with <em>Caddyshack</em>, and how I relate to that experience from 40 years ago. Believe it or not, there was a time when I got tired of people asking me about the film, of the &ldquo;Nooonan&rdquo; chants. It was a part in a movie, not a real character. Didn&rsquo;t these people have a life?</p>



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<p>That all changed when I was doing a TV pilot in 2007. The wardrobe designer told me about her father who had been suffering from leukemia. In the last six weeks of his life, the one thing that relieved the tension was when they sat down to watch <em>Caddyshack</em>. It suddenly hit me: How I feel about the movie internally isn&rsquo;t how other people experience it. Ever since, I feel grateful every time someone brings it up.</p>



<p>It was the same this week at Winged Foot.</p>



<p>Like Monday, tons of people asked me for selfies, including Paul Azinger and Dan Hicks. I was thrilled. Jimmy Roberts spent some time with me for a feature that will air on Saturday. I can&rsquo;t wait to see it.</p>


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<p>There was a funny moment, too. I went up and introduced myself to Sergio Garcia. I had been his partner in the pro-am at Riviera the same year he won the Masters. But, as we exchanged a few words, it was clear to me that he had no idea who I was. It&rsquo;s a wonderful lesson for all of us &ldquo;celebrities.&rdquo; You may not be as famous as you think you are.</p>



<p>What now? How do I build on these two amazing days?</p>



<p>I know. I can loop at the <a href="https://golf.com/news/tour-confidential-fanless-masters-impact-television-experience/">Masters in November</a>. Why not? So what if I never caddied at Augusta National as I did at Winged Foot? I&rsquo;ve seen the course on TV my whole life.</p>



<p>Feel free to spread the word. I will.</p>


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<html><body><p class="first"><em>Ed. note: Welcome to Noonan&rsquo;s Notebook! Over the next three days in this space, Michael O&rsquo;Keefe &mdash; aka, the actor who played Danny Noonan in </em>Caddyshack<em> &mdash; will share his experiences from Winged Foot Golf Club, where he caddied in the early 1970s and now, this week, is caddying at the 120th U.S. Open. (Well, for two practice days, anyway.) Keep it tuned here for a unique look behind the rope line at golf&rsquo;s ultimate test.</em></p>



<p>***</p>



<p>People have been asking me how I&rsquo;m going to prepare <a href="https://golf.com/news/caddyshack-star-michael-okeefe-wish-us-open/">to caddie at Winged Foot during the U.S. Open</a> this coming week. I&rsquo;ve also received much unsolicited advice like &ldquo;Do squats,&rdquo; as if squatting for a few days might enhance my bag-carrying capacity.</p>



<p>To be honest, I have not been doing much of anything except studying the yardages on the daunting West Course, and marveling at the fact that someone took me up on <a href="https://golf.com/news/features/danny-noonan-caddyshack-us-open-winged-foot/">my offer</a>.</p>



<p>Ten days ago, I wrote <a href="https://golf.com/news/features/danny-noonan-caddyshack-us-open-winged-foot/">a piece for GOLF.com</a> in which I volunteered my looping services to any player in the U.S. Open field. A Hail Mary? Most assuredly. But my prayer was answered.</p>


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<p>For the Monday and Tuesday practice rounds, I will be caddying for Danny Balin, a club pro who works at Fresh Meadow CC on Long Island. When the tournament rounds commence, he&rsquo;ll smartly transition to a non-fictional caddie.</p>



<p>Danny &mdash; now isn&rsquo;t that fitting? &mdash; has played <a href="https://golf.com/news/observations-winged-foot-readies-us-open/">Winged Foot</a> dozens of times. So he won&rsquo;t be needing much help from me, except to keep things loose and have some fun out there. That, I guarantee will happen.</p>



<p>This whole thing started when I was approached to write something about the 40th anniversary of the release of <em>Caddyshack</em> coinciding with the Open being played at Winged Foot. That got me thinking about how cool it would be to actually carry a bag in the championship, on the course where I caddied as a teenager.</p>


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<p>But to watch <a href="https://golf.com/news/features/danny-noonan-caddyshack-us-open-winged-foot/">the story</a> go viral, as the kids say today, has blown my mind &mdash; and, no, I didn&rsquo;t need any drugs to help me get there!</p>



<p>Upon reflection, I think part of the reason why my caddying pitch gathered steam is because it evoked memories of other great caddie stories, like Francis Ouimet winning the 1913 Open on a course at which he caddied &mdash; and with 10-year-old Eddie Lowery on his bag.</p>



<p>In the film adaptation of Mark Frost&rsquo;s book <em>The Greatest Game Ever Played</em>, Brookline CC members approach Lowery, who was barely as tall as the bag he was carrying, and tell him he&rsquo;s going to be replaced. Outraged, Ouimet responds, &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t ever talk to my caddie again.&rdquo;</p>



<p>The duo went on to win, forever changing the landscape of American golf. Inspiring stuff, right?</p>


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<p>I also think of Greg Puga, a Mexican-American caddie from East Los Angeles, who won the U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship in 2000. The following April, Puga found himself playing in the first two rounds of the Masters alongside the great Seve Ballesteros. What a ride.</p>



<p>Those stories share something in common with Danny Noonan&rsquo;s ascent from the caddie yard. They are about surmounting obstacles, working hard and triumphing against all odds &mdash; in other words, exactly the kinds of stories we need to be reminded of in these difficult days of quarantining and uncertainty.</p>



<p>I&rsquo;m thrilled that Danny is letting me carry his bag for a couple of days at Winged Foot, and I look forward to telling you how it goes.</p>



<p>Now, if you&rsquo;ll excuse me, I have to run. Time for some more squats.</p>


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<p>O&rsquo;Keefe, the actor who played caddie Danny Noonan in &ldquo;<a href="https://golf.com/news/caddyshack-still-fondly-holds-a-place-in-hearts-of-caddies/">Caddyshack</a>,&rdquo; has secured a partial looping gig for next week&rsquo;s U.S. Open at Winged Foot in Mamaroneck, N.Y. According to the <em><a href="https://nypost.com/2020/09/09/caddyshack-star-michael-okeefe-will-caddie-at-2020-us-open/">New York Post</a></em>, O&rsquo;Keefe will caddie for club professional Danny Balin in Monday and Tuesday practice rounds. (The <a href="https://golf.com/news/usga-pros-us-open-rota-pinehurst/">USGA</a> later confirmed the news to GOLF.com.)</p>



<p>Balin is the head pro at Fresh Meadow Country Club on Long Island and was one of three club pros to whom the USGA gave a U.S. Open exemption for finishing in the top three of the 2019 PGA Professional Player of the Year standings.</p>


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<p>O&rsquo;Keefe&rsquo;s quest for a bag in the national championship started on this website last week, when he <a href="https://golf.com/news/features/danny-noonan-caddyshack-us-open-winged-foot/">penned a first-person column</a> for GOLF.com making his case to caddie at Winged Foot. O&rsquo;Keefe, now 65, grew up near the storied club and caddied there in 1971 and &rsquo;72. His story gained traction from there &mdash;&nbsp;shared and picked up by other outlets &mdash;&nbsp;and apparently found its way to Michael Breed, the instructor at Trump Ferry Point. According to <em><a href="https://nypost.com/2020/09/09/caddyshack-star-michael-okeefe-will-caddie-at-2020-us-open/">The Post,</a></em> Breed pitched the idea to Balin.</p>



<p>&ldquo;I try to take this somewhat serious, so I would never do this during a tournament round,&rdquo; Balin told <em>The Post</em>. &ldquo;But I was like, Yeah this will be cool. Danny Noonan. Monday and Tuesday. It&rsquo;ll be a fun couple of days. It&rsquo;ll lighten the mood up.&rdquo;</p>



<p>Balin told <em>The Post </em>he recorded &ldquo;Caddyshack&rdquo; on Tuesday, despite seeing the movie several times before, as a refresher.</p>



<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to have to watch it to get the one-liners,&rdquo; Balin said.</p>


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<html><body><p class="first">This week marks the 40th birthday of one of the most iconic movies of all time: <em>Caddyshack</em>.</p>



<p>The film remains beloved by golfers even 40 years on, but it wasn&rsquo;t destined that way from the start. On the contrary: The film, at the time, looked like it would be a major flop, <a href="https://golf.com/lifestyle/celebrities/the-making-of-caddyshack-was-even-wilder-than-the-movie/">marred by wild partying on set</a>, <a href="https://www.si.com/golf/2018/04/17/caddyshack-book-chris-nashawaty-bill-murray-chevy-chase-scene-movie">in-fighting between actors</a>, and a disjointed plot which featured <a href="https://golf.com/lifestyle/celebrities/exclusive-book-excerpt-how-bill-murrays-improvisational-genius-stole-the-show-on-the-set-of-caddyshack/">huge amounts of improvisation.</a></p>



<p>As Chris Nashawaty recounts in his book <a href="https://go.skimresources.com?id=140293X1604404&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FCaddyshack-Making-Hollywood-Cinderella-Story%2Fdp%2F1250105951">Caddyshack<em>: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story</em>,</a> the film was originally intended to be a story of the caddies themselves. Danny Noonan was the main character, and the film focuses on him and his peers as they come of age and prepare to go to college. Everybody else was supposed to be a minor character &mdash; Bill Murray&rsquo;s original role wasn&rsquo;t even a speaking part.</p>



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<p>That&rsquo;s partly why the movie itself opens with a scene about Noonan and his family. But you may notice the film doesn&rsquo;t end the same way. That&rsquo;s because the <a href="https://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/01/somebody-on-reddit-just-destroyed-the-ending-of-caddyshack">explosion scene and famous last line from Rodney Dangerfield</a> which ends the movie was never intended to be the closing scene. That was supposed to be the third-to-last scene.</p>



<p>Here&rsquo;s how the movie was originally supposed to end, as Nashawaty writes:</p>



<p>&ldquo;<strong>In the early drafts of the script, the film ends right after the explosion with Danny at the airport, supposedly headed off to college but distracted at the last minute by a babe headed to Jamaica who makes him change his plans. He follows his bliss instead of the responsible path he&rsquo;s supposed to take. Life lessons are learned, etc. There was also supposed to be a brief <em>Casablanca</em>-like scene in which Ty and Lacey walk off into the sunset with Chase saying: &ldquo;Should we get together? We couldn&rsquo;t respect each other less.&rdquo;</strong></p>



<p>But as you know that never came to be. Why?</p>



<p>The original cut of the film was a messy four hours, so the directors needed to make some big changes. They ultimately saved the film by recognizing the comedic talent they had in Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, and Ted Knight. They reshaped what was supposed to be a movie about caddies around four characters that weren&rsquo;t caddies, cut scenes like ones above, and in doing so, transformed transformed a nearly-forgettable flop into a hilarious screwball comedy. </p>



<p>Perhaps fittingly, the eventual last line &mdash; Dangerfield&rsquo;s &ldquo;Hey everybody, we&rsquo;re all going to get laid&rdquo; &mdash; was another improvised line that they decided to keep on, as writer Harold Ramis told Nashawty:</p>



<p>&ldquo;Because it made absolutely no sense, which at that point was pretty much par for the course.&rdquo;</p>




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      <title><![CDATA['Caddyshack' comes to life in shooting incident on Wisconsin golf course]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>A man playing a golf course in central Wisconsin this week was wounded in an incident reminiscent of the movie "Caddyshack."</p>
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<html><body><p class="first">A rodent. A man with a firearm. A golf course.&nbsp;</p>



<p>A Wisconsin man must not have heard this one before.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>



<p>In an incident straight out of the comedy &ldquo;Caddyshack,&rdquo; a 50-year-old man was trying to shoot a woodchuck on his property in Lomira, Wis., this week when the round missed, ricocheted off some trees and struck an 80-year-old man playing golf at nearby The Golf Club at Camelot, according to Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt, which was reported by several outlets in Wisconsin.&nbsp;</p>



<p>The golfer, from nearby Fond du Lac, was struck in the upper torso, then treated at a local hospital and released, <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2020/07/06/golfer-injured-bullet-meant-woodchuck-wisconsin-lomira-fond-du-lac-camelot-groundhog/5387199002/">according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</a>. His name, nor the name of the shooter, was released.</p>



<p>The incident is still under investigation, Schmidt said when asked by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel if citations would be issued. Schmidt said investigators determined the distance the round traveled from the property to the golfer, but he didn&rsquo;t release it.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>



<p>In &ldquo;Caddyshack,&rdquo; Bushwood Country Club assistant groundskeeper <a href="https://golf.com/news/caddyshack-power-ranking-from-smails-to-spackler-rating-the-10-best-and-worst-golfers-at-bushwood-cc/">Carl Spackler</a>, played by Bill Murray, is charged with taking care of a gopher problem on the golf course. He tries a water hose, a rifle and explosives. All fail. The gopher is dancing at the end of the movie.</p>



<p>Somewhere, the woodchuck might be, too.&nbsp;</p>



<p>&ldquo;We did not locate the woodchuck,&rdquo; Schmidt told the Journal Sentinel.&nbsp;</p>


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