KING OF GOLF

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Title: KING OF GOLF

Reference number: 0468

Date: 1951*

Director: d. Douglas Rankin

Sponsor: Dunlop Limited

Production company: Faro Films

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10 mins

Description: Bobby Locke winning the 1949 and 1950 British Open Golf Championships. Locke demonstrates various golf shots [based on Bobby Locke's Saturday lessons in the Daily Mail].

Credits: p. man. Victor Wark
ph. Eric Cross and Harry Gillan
ed. Stan Willis
comm. Eamonn Andrews
p. Douglas Rankin.
Instructional sequences based on Bobby Locke's Saturday lessons in the Daily Mail. This film is presented with the compliments of the manufacturers of the Dunlop "65" golf ball.

Shotlist: Credits (.29); Bobby Locke winning the 1949 British Open Golf Championship, beating Irishman Harry Bradshaw after a play-off. Locke winning again in 1950 (1.05); Locke demonstrates the grip and swing. The drive and No 2 wood (4.26); Nos 2 and 5 irons. He putts a ball into a hole (5.14); Deliberate slice and the chip. Downhill and uphill lies (6.40); "Wedge" and "splash" shots out of a bunker. Putting (9.45); ecs (9.55)