“Men in Green” flows from a neat conceit: road-trip journalism following the lives of a mixed bag of golfers – some famous, others less so, but arguably more interesting.
Veteran Sports Illustrated golf writer Michael Bamberger, a former PGA Tour caddie and author of several memoir- style books as well as co-author (with Alan Shipnuck) of a rollicking novel about Tiger Woods, “The Swinger,” here takes us on a journey in search of golf legends. It’s partly a journalistic “Citizen Kane,” sifting through various accounts as that 1941 movie did.
In terms of sports commemoration, there’s also some emulation of Roger Kahn’s famous “where are they now” paean about the post-World War II Brooklyn Dodgers, “The Boys of Summer.