As happens occasionally on the putting green, there are brief flashes of tension and drama, but more often it's a long slog to the 18th hole as thoughts drift to that icy martini waiting in the clubhouse.
– Ted Fry,
Seattle Times,
30 Apr 2004
rotten:
For the most part, it's an act of big-screen worship. As drama, this one would have been better had it been a little more willing to go into the rough.
– Robert Denerstein,
Denver Rocky Mountain News,
30 Apr 2004
rotten:
Even the staunchest of golfheads must know they're watching a cut-and-trite accounting, rather than a fanciful evocation.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
30 Apr 2004
rotten:
Delivers nothing more and nothing less than one would expect from a boilerplate sports biography, which is to say, the standard triumph against a litany of standard obstacles.
– Michael O'Sullivan,
Washington Post,
30 Apr 2004
rotten:
[T]here's just not that much thrill in watching that little ball rolling toward the hole.