He’s incapable of laying up,” Shelton said. “And we got on the phone immediately and said, OK, the guy’s flaw is that he can’t lay up. It was the closest Beck ever came to winning a major, but in a weird way he helped create the character who would eventually become known as Roy McAvoy.Ĭhip Beck plays third shot to the 15th green after laying up during the final round of the 1993 Masters. That’s when Chip Beck infamously laid up on the par-5 15th hole during the final round when he trailed eventual winner Bernhard Langer by three shots. That idea had actually first taken shape during the final round of the 1993 Masters. “So we had a fun round of golf and then we were sitting at the bar afterwards and (said) something to the effect of, ‘Man, wouldn’t it be awesome if we could do this every day, get paid for it?” Foster said. In the fall of 1994, the writer and director Ron Shelton, writer John Norville, and producer Gary Foster got together for a round of golf at Ojai Valley Inn that proved to be an important step in the creation of what would become “Tin Cup.” Golf buddies and fellow screenwriters Shelton and Norville had discussed doing a movie about the game for years, but looping in Foster, whose long list of producing credits include “Sleepless in Seattle” and the TV show “Community,” was an important next step. And why there hasn’t been another one quite like it.īELOW: LISTEN TO THE LOCAL KNOWLEDGE PODCAST ON “TIN CUP” From how the film came together, to funny tales from the set, to why Kevin Costner almost didn’t take the role, here’s more on what is, for our money, the most authentic golf movie ever made. So to honour “Tin Cup’s” silver anniversary, we went behind the scenes-literally-with some of the people involved with the film, including Tin Cup himself. Because most movies don’t last, and this is a classic.” I say, ‘Oh, I did this movie Tin Cup.’ (They say) ‘Oh, my god!’ Of course, it feels amazing. “Every time I play golf with someone I don’t know. “The fact that year after year after year, not only on the Golf Channel or on cable or in life, like when Jean van de Velde blew the British Open and they said on TV, ‘Oh my god it’s ‘Tin Cup,'” producer Gary Foster said.
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