And the Golf Oscar Goes To…

Never has golf been such an integral part of two Best Picture nominees. The Aviator depicts a date between Howard Hughes and Katharine Hepburn at Bel-Air, only the real location was Woodland Hills Country Club and its tenth hole. The brief glimpse of a restored Bell greenside bunker was particularly exciting, if I may say so myself. And in Sideways, Alisal’s dreadful River Course features the hilarious golf scene between the character’s played so beautifully by Paul Giamatti and Thomas Hayden Church. Rex Pickett's novel, on which the movie is based, has its golf scenes played at everyone's favorite wind tunnel, La Purisma.