WHERE "GOLDFINGER" PLAYED GOLF

STOKE PARK GOLF COURSE: Moviegoers might recognise STOKE PARK, from the golf scenes in the James Bond movie, "GOLDFINGER". Especially the car parked in front of the distinctive white domed clubhouse. Bond, played by Sean Connery, was driving his Aston Martin, which was acuctioned off in a charity event at STOKE PARK, a few years ago.. ODDJOB, GOLDFINGER'S caddie, threatens Bond by throwing his steel-lined bowler like a discus and knocking the head off a plaster statue. The statue is still there because the film's producers created a duplicate for the beheading in the movie.

Connery, an avid golfer, hit his owns shots in the golf sequence filmed on the l7th hole, a par 4, that plays 4l8 yards. Goldfinger loses his ball in the rough but Oddjob drops another down his pants leg through a hole in his pocket to save his boss a two-stroke penalty.

Bond gets even on the l8th hole, a demanding 407 yard par four into the wind when he switches Goldfinger's ball. After Goldfinger putts out to win the match, Bond calls him for playing the worng ball because Goldfinger had said a the start they were playing "strict rules of golf."



STOKE PARK GOLF COURSE is located 7 miles from Heathrow Airport and 23 miles from London's West End. Other movies filmed here, "Bridget Jones Diary , and another bond film, "TOMORROW NEVER DIES" with Pierce Bronsnan.