For golfers from the 1980s and early 90s the only significant cinematic touchstone for the sport was Caddyshack (1980). Sure, there were other golf movies, but Caddyshack was the only one to breakout beyond the sport.
Then came 1996, and golfing moviegoers were treated to not one but two more golf movies that would enter the collective consciousness – Tin Cup and the subject of this month’s review, Happy Gilmore.
Together these three movies would form the great triumvirate of golf movies, the big three, the holy trinity. Golfers are expected to choose: which one is your favourite? Which one do you
