The latest series of film reports by Trevor Philpott

Golf is the Sport of Our Time. Golf courses are bursting at the greens; club membership is a precious possession. From Tokyo to Glasgow everybody wants to play - dustmen and dockers as well as brokers and bankers. The golf course has become the testing-ground where problems of daily life can be worked out of the system, and it is fast becoming a facility as vital to a community as a hospital or a sewage works. People long to retire so that they can give all their time and energy to golf.
The File on The Golfer covers the course from suburban links in Britain to entire communities created in the Arizona desert so that the townspeople can play golf all day, every day, all the year round.