CONTEMPORARY STOCK FOOTAGE
TOTALLY 1983 GOLF TOURNAMENT ON NEWPORT COUNTRY CLUB, SOME EARLY 1980S SMARMINESS ;Country club and pavilions, sponsors: MIZLOU TV SPORTS, 1983 MERILL LYNCH GOLF DIGEST, MERYLL LYNCH, XEROX, TAYLOR MADE ;Dolly toward entrance of country club, Howard David interviews Bruce Devlin, caddy holding flag w/title, Nick Seitz (!) ;Pan course w/title (17th Par 4), golfers crossing green w/title, Ed Eagles, commercials: Meryll Lynch, Taylor Made golf clubs ;Commercials: Grecian Formula, Schick disposable razors; Roger Birk, black golfer w/cigar & plaid slacks Charles Sifford ;Bob Goalby, WS golfer wearing knickers, Al Balding, golfers crossing green with caddies, Slo-Mo swing ;Nice WS competitors approaching flag, Gardner Dickenson, telephoto golfers around hole, Gardner driving golf cart -fast ;Closer shot of Balding's oddly shaped putter, I've never seen one like this, but I don't give a !@*!!* about golf ;V/O: 'And now, Balding, with his bass-ackwards putter...' Track ball makes it to hole, Slo-Mo replay, Sifford, Goalby, scores from Senior PGA Tour ;commercials: Xerox electric typewriter, Etonic golf shoes, Formby's Furniture refinisher, Meryl Lynch ;Tom Nieporte at 16th green, ball rolls past hole, Billy Casper, Gay Brewer (who hates his parents, who also has weird putter) ;Nieporte, Casper, intense putting with the title: 'Bonus Coverage', Miller Barber, nice HS WS putting green with few spectators ;T/H with little monitors perhaps in the wall of a remote broadcast van, B/W golfers in video-toaster window ;Commercial break: Merrill Lynch, Taylor Made golf clubs. Row of sports commentators chatting with Bob Goldie ;Fred Hawkins, WS tournament, Doug Ford, Mike Fetchick, Terry Barber, Art Silvestrone -who doffs his hat, scores ;Another nice WS putting green with golfers in distance, pro-golfers without titles to identify them... ;Jim Ferree who's wearing white knickers, Dan Sikes, score, commercial break: Merrill Lynch, Etonic ;Very brief WS country club...pro sizing up golf ball, Gene Littler, Int smarmy pre-tournament formalities ;More smarmy activity at the Newport Tennis Hall of Fame Casino (all the words the V/O used though not in the same order) ;NICE dance floor, man playing clarinet, smarmy dinner party, smarmy outdoor event, Scottish bagpipers, Rosecliff mansion ;Mike Souchak, Littler, interviewing Miller Barber, commercial break: Merrill Lynch, Spaulding golf balls ;Score, nice Tilt-D as ball lands near flag -with a glimpse of the spectators, pros & caddies cross green, golf w/o titles ;Rod Funseth, Souchak, Ferree, Littler, score, nice WS of golfers having stand-off with flag ;