history of golf ball: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_ball
History of St. Andrews: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_and_Ancient_Golf_Club_of_St_Andrews
History of golf clubs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_clubs
This movie had a G-rating and I rated it a 4/5 for being a sport documentary, informative about how golf became the game it has become today and its history. The deduction was for being a little on the slow side and not being in my top 100.
This movie starts off with a history of how golf became a game but first introducing the golf ball (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_ball; skip if went to link). All that the movie went over is in the "History" part of this link. But in summary, they used a stitched ball and after many different types of balls, and by accident, they came up with the ball that is used today.
Also, they went over how the game of golf was just a hobby among elites at first until it became competitive. This leads to more holes being made and then when more holes were made the elite demanded that they be more complex. The most famous of these courses is the famous St. Andrews Golf Course (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_and_Ancient_Golf_Club_of_St_Andrews) located in Scotland. It is also known as the "Golf Paradise" for hard-core golfers.
Throughout the movie they also went through how with each new golf course a club house had to be made, the improvement/changes (including limiting the number of golf clubs to 14 from as many as you can carry) and history/design of new golf clubs types including woods, hybrid, irons and putter, and the change of golf from a hobby to a game to a career. This is were the introduction of golf events and major were introduced such as the four majors that are in golf today (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_Majors). Also men such as Bobby Jones, Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus were talked about throughout the film.
This lead into the discussion of how golf went from just a spectator sport to a popular TV program during the era of Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer due to their increased fame and famous duels.
In the end, It leaves off talking about Tiger Woods and how he will become one of the best golfers of all-time (funny since we know the outcome).
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