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[T]here's just not that much thrill in watching that little ball rolling toward the hole.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
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Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
Overview
The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.
Director and cast
- Rowdy Herrington Director
- Jim Caviezel as Bobby Jones
- Claire Forlani as Mary Malone Jones
- Jeremy Northam as Walter Hagen
- Malcolm McDowell as O.B. Keeler
- Aidan Quinn as Harry Vardon
- Brett Rice as Big Bob Jones
- Connie Ray as Clara Jones
- Devon Gearhart as Little Bobby (6 / 8)
- Hilton McRae as Jimmy Maiden
- Erin Aine as Young Alexa
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
26%
Tomatometer
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
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
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
Rotten
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
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