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2004 American film

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius is a 2004 biographicalsportsdrama film directed and co-written by Rowdy Herrington.

The film is based on the life of golfer Bobby Jones, the only player in the sport to win all four of the men's major golf championships in a single season (1930, an era when the majors were The Amateur Championship in Britain, the U.S.

Amateur, The Open Championship, and the U.S. Open).

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The film was the first motion picture concerning The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews that was given permission to film on location.^{[citation needed]}.

The film is Herrington's most recent film, as of September 2024.

Plot

In 1936, golfer Bobby Jones, while traveling to the Olympics in Berlin, makes a stop in Scotland to visit the Old Course at St. Andrews. Anxious about his reception, he is warmly welcomed by many spectators, some of whom have closed their local shops for the day to watch him play.

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