The 10 best golf films of all time
The 10 best golf films: 5. The Squeeze
This is an entertaining romp about Augie Baccus (Jeremy Sumpter) who is a rock’n’roll golfer living in small town Texas.
One day he shoots a 63 to win the City golf tournament by 15 shots and also break the course record.
At the same time, professional gambler, Riverboat (Christopher McDonald) and his over the top girlfriend Jessie (Katherine LaNasa), also known as ‘The Bank’, are listening to the radio in their car.
So they decide to swing by and try to convince Augie play golf in money matches in which they will back the talented young man, but our aspiring star refuses.
Riverboat is nothing if not persistent and tracks Augie down at work and this time, against his girlfriend Natalie’s wishes, he succumbs when the man who makes his living from the talent of others, rightly points out this has gone on in golf for many a year.
All is going well until the intrepid trio try their luck in Las Vegas where Augie gets caught in the squeeze between his backer and local hoodlum Jimmy Diamonds when he has to play in a match for a cool million dollars and an awful lot more.
Did you know? Terry Jastrow, who wrote and directed this movie, loosely based it on Keith Flatt. This is the second film in my top ten in which Christopher McDonald plays one of the main characters, he is also Adam Sandler’s nemesis in Happy Gilmore.
Alex Perry
Alex has been the editor of National Club Golfer since 2017. A Devonian who enjoys wittering on about his south west roots, Alex moved north to join NCG after more than a decade in London, the last five of which were with ESPN. Away from golf, Alex follows Torquay United and spends too much time playing his PlayStation or his guitar and not enough time practising his short game.
