Golf Smarter, number 566, published on November 15, 2016.

You show me an actor that's a good golfer, and I'll show you an actor that doesn't work with actor Malcolm McDowell.

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Fred Green. Welcome to the Golf Smarter podcast, Malcolm. Thank you. Nice to be here.

You love playing golf.

It's a great passion of mine.

I'm an addictive personality, I think they call it.

Is it a personality or something?

But I started very late in life.

I thought it was, you know, an old man's game.

I refused to play with my friends.

And I said, come on, play golf.

Absolutely not.

I'm a tennis player.

Anyway, I did my knee in, as it were.

And I came out with some friends about six years ago,

and I said, I'll just drive the thing.

I'm not going to, I'm not going to play, but

anyway, I hit one ball in the air, and I was hooked. And then I started to get instruction. I

started, I may as well learn the, you know, the right way to play. And you did a golf movie.

Was that when you just started playing or had you already been hooked at that point?

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