James Bond’s iconic golf showdown with Auric Goldfinger, filmed at Stoke Park in Buckinghamshire, remains one of cinema’s great golf moments.
If you love golf and classic cinema, this one’s a treat.
The official James Bond 007 YouTube channel recently resurfaced the legendary scene from Goldfinger in which Sean Connery’s James Bond takes on Auric Goldfinger in a cheeky, high‑stakes match, and it’s well worth revisiting.
What many fans don’t realise is that although the film pretends the match takes place at the fictional “Royal St. Mark’s” (inspired by Royal St George’s), the scene was actually filmed at Stoke Park Golf Club in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire.
The clubhouse and manicured fairways you see on screen are all part of this historic Harry Colt‑designed course, which has featured in several major films.
Sean Connery was a good golfer, too. He played regularly for decades, competed in events like the Bob Hope Classic and even helped establish an early pro‑am in Scotland in the 1960s. One of those rare cases in movies where you didn’t have to suspend belief in the on-screen actor’s clunky athleticism.