44 Golf Movies That Every Serious Fan Should See Now
Best Golf Movies
With the golf movies debate heating up every PGA Championship week, this list cuts straight to the films that genuinely deliver. Golf has produced more great cinema than most people realize: sharp comedies, biopics, quiet obsession films, and real underdog stories. The sport rewards patience on screen the same way it does on the course. These 15 picks span seven decades of fairway storytelling.
44 Golf Movies That Every Serious Fan Should See Now
44 Golf Movies That Every Serious Fan Should See Now is a curated selection of 44 Titles spanning 1930 to 2025 across Golf, Special Event, Sport · Drama and Fantasy. Each title was handpicked by Movievia and ranked below from the strongest pick downward, so you can start at the top and discover your next watch — no endless scrolling, no algorithmic guesswork.
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
Rannulph Junuh came home from World War I a different man, the fluid golf swing that once made him legendary replaced by...
Tin Cup (1996)
Roy McAvoy had all the talent in Texas and burned through every bit of it. Now he runs a dying driving range...
The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
In 1913, a twenty-year-old former caddie from a working-class Massachusetts family walked onto the golf course at Brookline and shocked the sporting...
Happy Gilmore (1996)
Happy Gilmore never made it in hockey, but a thunderous slap-shot swing turns out to be worth a fortune on the fairway....
The Long Game (2024)
South Texas, 1957. Five Mexican-American teenagers spend their days caddying at a country club that will not let them set foot on...
Stick (2025)
Once a rising star on the professional golf circuit, Pryce Cahill watched his promising career collapse under the weight of a very...
Caddyshack (1980)
Bushwood Country Club runs on old money, snobbery, and a golf handicap nobody questions. For caddy Danny Noonan, the club represents something...
Miracle on the 17th Green (1999)
When a fifty-year-old advertising executive is handed his walking papers, he skips the classifieds and heads straight for the fairway. Convinced he...
Happy Gilmore 2 (2025)
Years have passed since Happy Gilmore shocked the golf world and rode off into comfortable retirement. Now, with a daughter who has...
Par 6 (2002)
When a burned-out skeptic drifts back to the Texas land his family has held for generations, he convinces his siblings to do...
The Short Game (2013)
Every summer, Pinehurst, North Carolina hosts something you almost have to see to believe: a world championship contested entirely by seven-year-olds. The...
The Phantom of the Open (2022)
In 1976, Maurice Flitcroft, a shipyard worker with no formal training and boundless self-belief, somehow talked his way into the qualifying rounds...
Seve (2014)
Born into poverty on the northern coast of Spain, Seve Ballesteros taught himself golf with a single cut-down club on a beach,...
Full Swing (2023)
Netflix's documentary series embeds cameras inside the professional golf circuit, tracking a rotating cast of tour players through the grind of a...
A Dangerous Game (2014)
Anthony Baxter returns to the front lines of a quiet but ruthless war, the one being fought between billionaires who want the...
Tommy's Honour (2017)
St Andrews, 1866. Young Tommy Morris has grown up watching his father, Old Tom, shape the very foundations of golf, from the...
Loopers: The Caddie's Long Walk (2019)
Behind every great round of golf walks someone who rarely gets the trophy but often shapes the outcome. This documentary turns its...
Tiger (2021)
Few athletes have burned as brightly, or as destructively, as Tiger Woods. This two-part documentary digs beneath the carefully managed myth to...
The Caddy (1953)
Harvey Miller carries golf royalty in his bloodline but falls apart the moment a crowd gathers. Rather than waste his talent entirely,...
Pat and Mike (1952)
Pat Pemberton can beat anyone on the golf course, unless her overbearing fiancé shows up to watch. His presence turns her into...
Dorf On Golf (1987)
Tim Conway straps on his stubby legs and waddles onto the fairway as Dorf, the lovably hapless miniature sportsman who became a...
State of Play: Trophy Kids (2013)
Behind every youth athlete pushing through brutal training sessions, there is often a parent pushing harder. This HBO Sports documentary turns its...
From the Rough (2013)
When a determined women's swim coach talks her way into leading a men's golf program she knows almost nothing about, the results...
Dead Solid Perfect (1988)
Kenny Lee Puckett is grinding through life on the professional golf circuit, a mid-tier player chasing a big payday that keeps slipping...
Swing Away (2017)
After a public meltdown costs her a suspension from the tour, professional golfer Zoe Papadopoulos retreats to her grandparents' village in Greece,...
The Founders (2016)
In 1950, thirteen women who loved golf and refused to be told no built a professional tour from scratch. They drove themselves...
Dirty Grandpa (2016)
A week before his carefully planned wedding to his boss's daughter, buttoned-up lawyer Jason Kelly finds himself behind the wheel, chauffeuring his...
Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004)
Before Tiger, before Nicklaus, there was Bobby Jones, the Georgian amateur who rewrote what golf could be. Competing against seasoned professionals while...
The Golf Specialist (1930)
W.C. Fields brings his signature brand of bumbling pomposity to the golf course in this sharp 1930 short. A wanted man hiding...
Round of Your Life (2019)
After a devastating car accident puts his father in a coma, fifteen-year-old golf prodigy Carter finds purpose in an unexpected place: the...
A Gentleman's Game (2002)
On the manicured fairways of a privileged East Coast country club, one summer quietly reshapes the lives of everyone who passes through....
Birdies (2022)
Twin Pines Country Club has seen better days. Membership is thin, the bar tab is thick, and the staff are more devoted...
The Squeeze (2015)
Augie is a small-town Southern kid with a golf swing that borders on supernatural. When a smooth-talking gambler spots his talent, Augie...
Tiger (2019)
Sabine and Natacha are twenty-two, bound together by the particular closeness that forms when two people have nowhere else to go. Their...
The Foursome (2006)
Twenty years is a long time, and for four college friends gathering at their reunion, the gap has done nothing to smooth...
Hole in One (2009)
Eric has a natural gift for golf and an equally natural talent for making terrible decisions. After losing a reckless bet to...
The Tiger Woods Story (1998)
Before the majors, the endorsements, and the mythology, there was a boy learning to grip a club under the watchful eye of...
Caddyshack II (1988)
Jack Hartounian has more money than he knows what to do with, but the blue-blooded snobs at Bushwood Country Club still won't...
Birdie and Bogey (2004)
When a twelve-year-old girl receives a cancer diagnosis, the weight of it lands on her entire family in different ways. Her father's...
Who's Your Caddy? (2007)
Hip-hop mogul C-Note has the money, the ambition, and the swagger to crack the stuffy Carolina Pines Golf and Country Club. What...
The Greenskeeper (2002)
A weekend birthday bash at a ritzy country club sounds like a good idea until a figure in groundskeeping gear starts trimming...
Golfballs! (1999)
Pennytree Golf Club is broke, barely standing, and about to be swallowed whole by the slick neighbor next door. When Liberty Pennytree...
Playing Through (2024)
Ann Gregory has fought for every yard of fairway she's ever walked, and when she steps into the USGA Women's Amateur as...
The Back Nine (2009)
At forty, most people are making peace with the lives they have. Not this guy. Convinced that a career on the professional...
44 Golf Movies That Every Serious Fan Should See Now
From comedy classics to gripping biopics, these 44 best golf movies cover every swing and heartbreak golf delivers. Essential PGA Championship season picks.
Best Golf Movies
A complete reference of every movie on this list, ranked in the editorial order above. Use this table as a quick scan: tap any title for the full movie page including trailer, synopsis, and streaming availability.
- 1 The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
- 2 Tin Cup (1996)
- 3 The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
- 4 Happy Gilmore (1996)
- 5 The Long Game (2024)
- 6 Stick (2025)
- 7 Caddyshack (1980)
- 8 Miracle on the 17th Green (1999)
- 9 Happy Gilmore 2 (2025)
- 10 Par 6 (2002)
- 11 The Short Game (2013)
- 12 The Phantom of the Open (2022)
- 13 Seve (2014)
- 14 Full Swing (2023)
- 15 A Dangerous Game (2014)
- 16 Tommy's Honour (2017)
- 17 Loopers: The Caddie's Long Walk (2019)
- 18 Tiger (2021)
- 19 The Caddy (1953)
- 20 Pat and Mike (1952)
- 21 Dorf On Golf (1987)
- 22 State of Play: Trophy Kids (2013)
- 23 From the Rough (2013)
- 24 Dead Solid Perfect (1988)
- 25 Swing Away (2017)
- 26 The Founders (2016)
- 27 Dirty Grandpa (2016)
- 28 Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004)
- 29 The Golf Specialist (1930)
- 30 Round of Your Life (2019)
- 31 A Gentleman's Game (2002)
- 32 Birdies (2022)
- 33 The Squeeze (2015)
- 34 Tiger (2019)
- 35 The Foursome (2006)
- 36 Hole in One (2009)
- 37 The Tiger Woods Story (1998)
- 38 Caddyshack II (1988)
- 39 Birdie and Bogey (2004)
- 40 Who's Your Caddy? (2007)
- 41 The Greenskeeper (2002)
- 42 Golfballs! (1999)
- 43 Playing Through (2024)
- 44 The Back Nine (2009)
Frequently asked
Which movie on the 44 Golf Movies That Every Serious Fan Should See Now is the highest rated?
The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005) is the highest-rated film on the 44 Golf Movies That Every Serious Fan Should See Now, with a viewer rating of 7.3/10. You can find it featured at the top of the ranked list above, along with the full lineup ordered from best to last so you always know which title to start with.
How many movies are on the 44 Golf Movies That Every Serious Fan Should See Now?
The 44 Golf Movies That Every Serious Fan Should See Now contains 44 movies, spanning 1930 to 2025, primarily within the Golf, Special Event, Sport · Drama and Fantasy genre. The selection is updated regularly as Movievia's editors discover new titles worth adding or refining the lineup based on viewer feedback and rating shifts.
Is the 44 Golf Movies That Every Serious Fan Should See Now worth watching?
Yes — the 44 Golf Movies That Every Serious Fan Should See Now carries an average viewer score of 5.8/10 across all 44 movies, well above the typical film average. Each entry was handpicked rather than algorithm-selected, so the list reads more like a recommendation from a friend with great taste than a generic top-100 dump. Start with the #1 pick at the top of the page.
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