Golf documentaries

[howbow88]

Hi chaps,

We have a very handy thread for golf podcasts, so I thought a similar one for golf documentaries could be helpful. There must be loads out there worth watching, particularly online.

I recently watched this one, on YouTube. It was alright. Far too happy clappy for me, though in fairness, that was partly due to just how one-sided the event was. But I also would have loved to see the American side of things.

 

[Eesat 90210]

If only Netflix had produced the most insightful fly-on-the-wall series of golf documentaries over the last 2 years, we'd have had a never-before-seen look at the lives of the top PGA Tour golfers...

Apart from that, the only modern day golfer worth following in his private life is Tiger, who is notoriously private and the couple of docs on his life are non-authorised. Apart from him, the modern day golfer is probably the most vanilla, boring specimen of a top sportsman that we have on the planet...The type of mentality that gets them out hitting balls on their own and practicing putting for 8 hours a day doesn't exactly make them interesting human beings.

Turn the clock back to the 60's/70's and 80's when there were real characters like Ray Floyd and Arnold Palmer etc who had one or several different women each night at each tour stop, that would make a fantastic story, alas of course they had the privacy back then. Any of the guys living that good life now will of course do the max to protect that from ever getting out.

So what is there left of interest? The likes of Joel Damen and Peter Malnati and their "struggles"? Big Yawn from me.