Sean Connery was the archetypal James Bond. The Scottish ‘007’ actor, who died in 2020, delivered one of, if not the most legendary golf scenes in cinema history in his duel with Gert Fröbe in ‘Goldfinger’. And Connery, who was a keen golfer himself and played almost every day after the end of his acting career, also provided the perfect answer to the question of why the game fascinates us all so much in this interview published just last week. In a nutshell: golf captivates you and is an addiction. The game reveals our character. It has dignity, it is inexhaustible and as unfair as life. And it’s easy to cheat – but you only ever penalise yourself in the process. And you have to live with the knowledge of it.
(Written by Michael Basche)
Interviewer: “Why do people play golf?”
Sean Connery’ sums up golf in one perfect, 90-second answer. pic.twitter.com/XnNPCDwvGr
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