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11 mar 2022 · Maurice’s twin sons had no idea their dad was taking part in the British Open qualifying during the summer of 1976 — and neither did his employers.
12 mar 2022 · James is the son of golfing hero Maurice Flitcroft, a crane driver at Barrow shipyard, who managed to gain entry to the British Open Golf Championship in 1976 and subsequently shot the worst...
7 giu 2022 · Lifestyle. 'The Phantom of the Open' Brings Maurice Flitcroft's Amusing, Inspiring Story to Big Screen. New movie, based off a book by the same name, chronicles a British amateur golfer's...
Flitcroft was married to Jean, who died in 2002. They had two sons, one of whom caddied for him. Death. In its obituary of Flitcroft, The Daily Telegraph commented:
- 24 March 2007 (aged 77)
- Maurice Gerald Flitcroft, 23 November 1929, Manchester, England
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20 ott 2021 · Nick Wall. If Maurice Flitcroft hadn’t really existed, a British comedy would surely have invented him. A humble shipyard worker from Barrow-in-Furness who decided, on a rogue middle-aged whim,...
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31 mag 2022 · That secondary subplot involves Maurice’s twin sons, Gene and James, played with enormous charm, respectively, by twins Christian and Jonah Lees.
16 mar 2022 · Film. 16 March 2022. The Phantom of the Open is a very British tribute to failure. Mark Rylance is charming as the golf hoaxer Maurice Flitcroft, but there's not quite enough here to sustain a feature. By David Sexton. Photo by Alamy. Endearing failure is a peculiarly British genre.
