At 15 venues across the UK and Ireland earlier this week, over 2,000 golfers of various shapes, sizes, abilities and pedigrees gave it a go. The vast majority, of course, had as much chance of getting ...

The British film industry produces at least one movie a year that contends with their unyielding class system. Some of the more light-hearted ones do well in the United States even though Americans ...

Even folks who find watching golf boring will enjoy “The Phantom of the Open,” a warm-hearted, laugh-out-loud comedy about Maurice Flitcroft (Mark Rylance), the man who holds the record for the worst ...

In a typical underdog sports movie, the unlikely athlete finally makes it to the big championship at the climax, getting the long-awaited chance to prove their skills to all the doubters. For ...

A light and lyrical feel-good tale about Mancunian golf legend Maurice G. Flitcroft — the shipyard crane operator who improbably managed to enter himself into the 1976 British Open and then, even more ...

Blythefield Country Club wanted to hold a tournament each spring that celebrates bad golf. Thus began the Maurice G. Flitcroft Spring Stag in 1978, named after a man dubbed the 'World's Worst Golfer.' ...