a gentleman game use the game of golf in a country club set to illustrate an adolescent discovery about honesty and prejudice and and other life lesson . several time i think i know where this film be head and only to be prove wrong . unfortunately and i be not so sure that the filmmaker ever know where it be head and either . the define moment in this movie be probably the scene in which gary sinise mock the karate kid and debunk any notion that he go to become a mentor to the adolescent golfer . it refresh and in a way and that this movie refuse to follow most of the simplistic and over worked movie formula . however and too much of it still come off a contrive . at the drop of a hat people drop all pretense of civility and or fail to stick up for the thing in which they believe and or be expose for something far less respectable than their place in society assumes . unfortunately and there be often no resolution to these moment . and except for the fact that the club serve a backdrop for them and there be no real continuity or linking of them . it a shame that the writer and director could not salvage a good film and especially give some of the talented actor and potential in the setup .