The Best Golf Movie of All Time

Rating: Null/10 (8 February 2003)

If there is one movie that is easy identifiable with golf through the ages, "Caddyshack" is it. Not even "Happy Gilmore," "Tin Cup," (a straighter version of "Caddyshack") or "Caddyshack II" can surpass this one." It is an original in itself. The cast, although it was reported that they didn't really get along all the time, makes it work. We meet Chevy Chase, who combines laughs, sensuality, and his laid-back persona as the Zen-obsessed golfer and ladies' man, Ty Webb, Rodney Dangerfield, who steals the show as loudmouth real-estate developer Al Czervik, Ted Knight as the sharp-tongued Judge Smails, Bill Murray as the demented greenskeeper Carl Spackler on the prowl to hunt for a giant gopher, Michael O'Keefe as Danny Noonan, the caddy with hopes for something better, Sarah Holcomb, who was underused as Danny's Irish waitress girlfriend, Maggie, and Cindy Morgan as the lovely but lascivious blonde bombshell, Lacey Underall, who has flings with Ty and Danny, and gets flirted by all the young men on the golf course and the pool. The gags are memorable, whether it be a candy bar in the pool mistaken for feces, that scares all the swimmers, or Al's latest gadgets to help him score, not to mention Al's outrageous jokes ("Did somebody step on that duck?"). Critics may have panned this, just like many other broad comedies, but many a viewer has so much fun with this movie they can watch it again and again as the years pass. "Caddyshack" was the reason I wanted to learn how to play golf.