Bad Golf My Way (1994 Video) User Reviews

No wonder this was in the charity shop.

[keyszers · 2/10 · 17 April 2001]

I like Leslie Nielson. His parts in the series of movies "The Naked Gun" were very good, and his part in "Airplane" was also good, but not as. This on the other hand is a load of cobblers. Leslie tries to play a con man golfer, and gets himself into a bet with a professional golfer. He wins by applying every possible method of distraction to the other golfer, including Clowns and a Mongoose.

If you really want to watch this, try not to spend too much money getting it.

Very Leslie Nielsen...

[crawfrordboon · 8/10 · 27 April 2003]

This is quite a funny video if you can get your hands on it, in which Leslie Nielsen, as himself, tees of at Blue Springs Golf Club in Colarado, in an attempt to teach a lesson to arrogant club champion Brad van Courtland. With the help of his caddy Bob Donner, Nielsen takes some of the tricks he first showcased in 'Bad Golf Made Easier" and applies them here, along with some new material.

****POSSIBLE SPOILERS******

Leslie and Bob the Caddy escort Brad around the course on their cart, as Nielsen and the champ play a high-stakes game with big bucks for the winner. As the match begins, Nielsen not only starts to implement his own unique brand of golfplay to the game, he also submits van Courtland to a gradual, subliminal, but definite psychological battering.

"Brad, a golfer of your quality sees everything, hears everything. You know its true what Nicklaus said, the finest golfer is so perceptive, he can literally hear a person changing their mind." With this kind of exaggerated flattery, some interesting interpretations of "the rules", and a much neglected technique of adding 50-100 yards to the drive - dressing up as a woman and shooting from the Ladies tee - Leslie attempts to distract, annoy, and harass his opponent to the verge of insanity (and beyond, as it proves after one incident on the last green with a "mongosse").

All in all this is funny and off the wall, Nielsen doing his "straight man" routine to a tee, which is great, but only if you're a fan already.

A (Mostly) Humorous Outing For Golf and Leslie Nielsen Fans Alike

[ianlueck · 8/10 · 30 December 2008]

The video starts out rather slowly and there are a couple sketches that bomb (like the clown cart), but there are some winners in here. My personal favorite sections:

1) Leslie Nielsen goads Brad into trying to hit a ball out of the lake. "If YOU can make that shot, that will go down as one of the greatest shots in the history of golf!"

2) Leslie filming Brad's swing, and slowly morphing into a sunglasses-wearing director. Brad's thoroughly exhausted doing literally hundreds of takes.

3) Leslie confusing Brad with "left" and "right" when discussing which way the green slopes.

4) Leslie dressing up in drag to tee off from the lady's tee.

5) The dreaded "tick hole", where Leslie convinces Brad that if he doesn't put on repellent, he will get bitten by a deadly tick.

6) Why is a mongoose needing to be fed on a golf course? Oh well, it doesn't matter; it's a hilarious scene, because Leslie is once again able to convince Brad that the threat is real.

7) All of Leslie's made-up golf bets, like Prunies. "All right, I'm not going to argue with you. It's a double Prunie." Though my favorite is the bet where the two participants try to get as close to the green without actually getting on the green, and since Brad got on, he lost.

8) Brad demanding that they play by "all the rules" actually means rules from every other sport, including football (to which he's told to move five yards back for delaying game).

The video also contains some wraparounds that contain Leslie talking to the camera while classical music plays in the background (such as the theme to Masterpiece Theater), and some are rather amusing. "What is the sound of one hand clapping? Or one mind snapping? "

I know it's an incredibly niche release, but I'd LOVE to have this on DVD. Sadly, that'll never happen...