This wonderfully crass comedy from Groundhog Day director Harold Ramis is a sort of "Animal Golf Club". It wins no prizes for subtlety, yet breezes along in a cheerfully tasteless manner. There's a straightforward plot, in which loudmouth millionaire Rodney Dangerfield gets up snobbish Ted Knight's nose when he attempts to take over the golf club, setting the scene for a climactic contest on the links. There's an annoying subplot about caddies, presumably for the teens. Top-billed Chevy Chase is given little to do as the louche golf professional, but Dangerfield reprises his stand-up persona to gloriously vulgar effect, and Bill Murray nearly steals the show as a psychopathic groundsman maintaining a running battle with the club's resident gophers.

At an exclusive country club, an ambitious young caddy, Danny Noonan, eagerly pursues a caddy scholarship in hopes of attending college and, in turn, avoiding a job at the lumber yard. In order to succeed, he must first win the favour of the elitist Judge Smails, and then the caddy golf tournament which Smails sponsors.