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The Short Game

  • 20132013
  • PGPG
  • 1h 39m
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7.3/10
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The Short Game (2013)
Each year, the worldÂ’s best 7 year-old golfers descend on Pinehurst, North Carolina to compete in the World Championships of Junior Golf. The Short Game follows eight of these very young athletes on their quest to become the sportÂ’s next phenom.
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The best 7 year old golfers from around the world descend on the world famous Pinehurst Golf course in North Carolina to determine the next world champion and who might become golf's next ph... Read allThe best 7 year old golfers from around the world descend on the world famous Pinehurst Golf course in North Carolina to determine the next world champion and who might become golf's next phenomenon. Most of these young prodigies have been holding clubs since before they could wa... Read allThe best 7 year old golfers from around the world descend on the world famous Pinehurst Golf course in North Carolina to determine the next world champion and who might become golf's next phenomenon. Most of these young prodigies have been holding clubs since before they could walk and are better by the time they are six than most people will be in their lifetime. Thi... Read all
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    • Josh Greenbaum
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    • Amari Avery
    • Jed Dy
    • Allan Kournikova
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    • Jed Dy
    • Allan Kournikova
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    • 51Metascore
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    Zamokuhle Nxasana
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    Alexa Pano
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    Sky Sudberry
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    Augustin Valery
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    Yang Kuang
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    Gary Player
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    Annika Sörenstam
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    Chi Chi Rodriguez
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    Don Law
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    Dan Martin
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    John Nieporte
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    Alla Kournikova
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    Geoff Nxasana
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    • Trivia
      Being a world champion already in 2011, 2012 & 2013 Allan also won the World Championship in 2015. He also won the U.S. Kids Golf European Championship from 2011 - 2015.
    • Crazy credits
      In the on-screen soundtrack credits, the name of one of the writers of th song "How You Like Me Now," Arlester Christian, has his first and last names incorrectly reversed into Christian Arlester.
    • Connections
      Version of The Short Game (2014)
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      Black Tambourine
      Written by Ellis Eugene Blacknell, Beck (as Beck Danid Hansen), John King (as John Robert King) and Michael Simpson (as Michael S. Simpson)

      Performed by Beck

      Courtesy of Interscope Records

      Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

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    4/10
    The little people at golf - intensity is crazy....
    Unlike other reviewers here, I have to differ to the rest. This documentary was uncomfortable viewing. These are just little kids, and really even in 2-3 years time (let alone 20 years) we don't know how they'll develop physically & mentally. The world is full of those who could have been.

    This documentary has some very uncomfortable parent child connections, and as they were kids I'll leave out who I'm referring to (but those who have watched the documentary likely know who I'm talking about).

    The kids are over coached and prepared for interviews! That is uncomfortable in itself. It was great to see the kids when they were allowed to just be well... kids! Yet here there is an ultra competitiveness. With all due respect, who cares in the long-term who was the best 7 year old at golf? Some guy might not pick up a golf club until he is 14 and end up trouncing all of them.

    For me, I thought this was uncomfortable viewing, not that thankfully I had their lifestyle. The life of the rich and famous can be quite strange to outsiders like us all. Really this should have been all much more critical of certain people in this documentary, but seemed to just show it all as happy!

    A documentary that I feel that may be hiding the truth that may only come out in many years to come.
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    • May 19, 2021

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      • September 20, 2013 (United States)
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