To celebrate the U.S. Open, we've ranked six of the best golf movies of all time. Our picks span well over half a century of cinema and are a mix of comedy and drama that offer plenty of different approaches to that sports-movie mainstay: the scrappy underdog story. Yet throughout cinema history, there have been several movies that transcend the myriad stereotypes of golf (“a good walk spoiled,” per Mark Twain ) to achieve something well on par with the best sports movies.