PG-13 | 1h 46min | Drama, Comedy, Sports | 3 June 2022 (USA)
The likelihood of you being pleased after watching “The Phantom of the Open” will be completely contingent on two factors: how much you appreciate fact-based “everyman” stories and how much you know about golf.
As the son of a professional golfer who was weaned on the game, I would consider myself more knowledgeable than the Average Joe on the intricacies of the sport but less so than most historians.
Fitting snuggly into the “sports uplift” sub-category, “The Phantom of the Open” (TPOTO) also lands squarely in “quirky British dramedy” territory which was so au currant and en vogue at the turn of this century….