Last week, I saw an advance showing of “The Greatest Game Ever Played”. It’s the latest golf movie to hit the big screen, this one about Francis Ouimet winning the 1913 U.S. Open championship.

It’s a Disney movie, so it has the typical feel-good, family-friendly themes and underdog overcoming obstacles including class prejudice of the day type stuff.

But it is also directed by Bill Paxton, so certain parts have a somewhat tormenting style to it. If you’ve seen Frailty, the first movie he directed you’ll know what I’m talking about.

Okay so it’s definitely not as dark as Frailty (it’s hard to be as dark as that movie actually – though I still recommend it because it was very interesting... think “demons”.)

But back to “The Greatest Game”, it was surprisingly good. Very compelling story, good history, great action – sports action, that is.

Paxton jumped around with a bunch of different styles, which made it a little odd. But still entertaining.

I actually wrote a review of it for Sportsnet. Check it out!

That’s it for today.