Golf has never been my thing. The concept is simple but in practice it's a very difficult and frustrating game. Perhaps telling a story about the game is no easier, as Tommy's Honour returns a mixed scorecard.
Based on the book of the same name by Kevin Cook, Tommy's Honour tells the true story of Old Tom Morris and his son Tommy - both historical juggernauts of the modern game of golf.
Young Tommy, played by Scotland's rising star Jack Lowden (Dunkirk), is a renegade among the golfing fraternity. His desire to see golfing competitors elevate themselves above their role as mere chattels for the "gentlemen" who wager on their results, proves a difficult task.
Thankfully, he's one of the world's best - a useful skill for a man who champions pay equity and a softening of the class difference within the seemingly impenetrable golfing society. Young Tommy is fiercely independent and ruffles plenty of feathers, while his father looks on seemingly helpless to sway his fervent son.
Tommy's extracurricular activities of drinking, goofing around, and his love for an unfavourable woman named Meg (played by Ophelia Lovibond) derail his golfing ambitions, with the latter having far-reaching consequences.
