movie, \"the greatest game ever played\"
 

In the movie "the greatest game ever played" Francis has to chip on the green in the playoff because his opponents ball was in his line. Is this accurate (the were not able to mark a ball back in the day) ? or some stupid movie bug?

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"A stymie refers to an archaic rule in the game of golf. Prior to 1952, when a player's ball blocked the path of another player's ball, but was more than six inches from it, the offending player's ball was not lifted. Instead the other player had to attempt to slice or draw the putt around the obstacle. Often, a player would attempt to chip the ball over the opponent's ball. If the player failed, and his ball impacted that of his opponent's, then the ball would be played as it lay. The opponent would then have to choose whether to putt from the original, or new position."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stymie

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wow, sick beat...

basically never say "ill finish"

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I just watched this movie, it wasn't a bad watch.

As far as I know, stymies were in matchplay only and were not part of strokeplay. Therefore when I saw this in the movie I was thinking it was BS.

I'll have to check. Was it in the playoff? If so that may have had a bearing on the traditional strokeplay ruling, again not sure.

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I don't think it was limited to matchplay.

Playoffs in strokeplay are still strokeplay, even if you play one hole at the time, you still play by strokeplay rules.

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I don't think it was limited to matchplay.

[/ QUOTE ] I think it was, so one of us needs to back it up otherwise we wont know either way.

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Playoffs in strokeplay are still strokeplay, even if you play one hole at the time, you still play by strokeplay rules.

[/ QUOTE ] I know that is the case now, but there also isn't stymies anymore, and Ted Ray appeared to drop out(concede) of the playoff halfway through.

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While it is a good movie, it is not historically accurate. The most glaring error is the fact that the final score of the playoff was Ouimet-72, Vardon-77, Ray-78. The movie depicts the final hole as very close between Ouimet and Vardon, but truthfully, the playoff was basically over holes before.

BO