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Why screen villains always play golf

Why screen villains always play golf

Short of kicking a puppy, there’s no more reliable signifier of utter rottenness than a man – and it is always a man – playing golf.

Peter Swain

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In the current Disney+ hit series Rivals, adapted from Jilly Cooper’s bonkbuster, David Tennant plays the slippery TV boss Lord Tony Baddingham. Nominative determinism notwithstanding, the audience is unsure at first whether he’s a goody or a baddie. Until, that is, we see him practise putting in his executive lair.

In dramatic terms, short of kicking a puppy, there’s no more reliable signifier of utter rottenness than a man – and it is always a man – playing golf.

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