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)