Samuel L Jackson: 'I'Ll Never Be a Movie Golfer'

16-11-2008 22:01

Fans of movie star and golf fanatic Samuel L. Jackson will never see him playing golf on the big screen - because he's convinced fairway films are flops.

The Pulp Fiction star is considered one of the world's best celebrity golfers, but he vows he'll never mix business with pleasure.

(Kevin Costner movie) Tin Cup is a romantic comedy and a date movie. If you can make a date movie out of golf, maybe that would work. But those are the only two, Caddyshack and Tin Cup.

He says, "Golf is a sport that people participate in. People don't like to watch it on screen unless it's Caddyshack. That's the only one. Who went to see (The Legend of) Bagger Vance? Will (Smith) and Matt Damon's family?

"(Kevin Costner movie) Tin Cup is a romantic comedy and a date movie. If you can make a date movie out of golf, maybe that would work. But those are the only two, Caddyshack and Tin Cup."

Meanwhile Samuel L. Jackson has a painful memory of late pal Bernie Mac - the comic hit actor with a ball while they played golf.

Jackson was stunned when he learned that Mac had died in August (08), but he'll always be left with one scar that reminds him of his friend.

He explains, "Bernie was the only guy to hit me with a golf ball. We were playing golf in Chicago... and Bernie drove his ball and I drove my ball about 20 yards further than his and I just kept going down the fairway and, as I was walking, it felt like somebody had shot me in the back.

"Bernie had hit a three wood, shanked (mis-hit) it and just drilled me right in the back... and didn't apologise.

He was like, 'You shouldn't have been in the way - it would have been a good shot.'"