The Short Game directed by Josh Greenbaum is a documentary about how eight young golfers play in the kids national championship, Pinehurst North Carolina. The eight children that are filmed are Amari Avery, Jed Dy, Allan Kournikova, Zamokuhle Nxasana, Alexa Pano, Sky Sudberry, Yang Kuang, and Augustin Valery. These players have to compete against 1500 other players coming from 80 different countries. The eight players that the director chose are all different in many ways some better at driving, putting, anything. In this film they all compete for the world championship but in the end Allan Kournikova ends up taking home first place in the boys division, having Alexa Pano follow up winning the girls division. These children practice everyday non stop, skipping over sleep overs, hanging out with friends, when ever they have a chance to play they do, 365 days a year. I feel like golf is a lifestyle not a hobby to these kids, everything to them is golf.
Personally I like this movie a lot and i've showed this movie to my dad and my brother because they really like golf, and they enjoyed it. In this movie I think that the kids take the game a little to seriously. I know friends and kids that play sports religiously but don't take it this hard, they take breaks and hang out with their friends. My favorite sport is wrestling and I have been doing it my entire life and have always taken breaks, and yes I agree that if I took it that seriously then I could be a very good wrestler. This summer im doing wrestling a lot, for practice in the off season. In the documentary I wanted the kid young boy Jed Dy to win so badly, they ended up saying that if he didn't earn that ten stroke penalty he would have came in first place! The mom ended up admitting to what she did but Jed played well and will get them next time. I was doing research and found out that he went on to winning the Junior Masters which is a big deal. Overall the movie was great.
