26 June 2013. There are parallel themes on display with both Bobby Jones and the The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005), the overt practice of elitism during first part of the 20th century, the vital importance of emotional control in the game of golf as well as the distinction between being a professional golfer who plays for money and an amateur golfer who plays for the love of the game. Along with The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) or the more popularized fictional romance drama Tin Cup (1996), Bobby Jones shares the individual travails and redemption themes. Yet Bobby Jones is somehow weakened though its difficult to ascribe whether to the vastness and epic nature of the real life Bobby Jones that perhaps required a much longer script and movie length or due to the absence of a strong enough script, captivating music, and poor editing that made the movie sequences seemed somewhat disjointed and without sufficient completeness or depth. This real life story as told however is breathtaking in its scope and Bobby Jones real life adds to the substantive material and multitude of plots that almost seemingly are beyond the scope of any one movie. The further overlapping release times and subject matter with The Greatest Game Ever Played are coincidentally interesting themselves with overlapping characters in a similar time period especially with the British legendary golfer Harry Vardon.
Review of Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
