"You must sense it... through your body, through your feelings... when your living experience... level after level... right into the heart of it." "Any chance of getting a lesson, sir?" "Ohhh, but... you may not know... but this is a solemn and serious matter." "Just call me Shivas." "Go ahead, they'll understand." "Stick your bum out." "Keep this straight..." "My name's Michael Murphy." "I hope I'm not intruding, but Shivas invited me to dinner" "Well, now Mr. Murphy, you wouldn't have done that if you didn't have a good reason." "Don't worry, the Badman often brings his play partners her to our place." "Peter, my wife Agatha... welcome to our good camp Blaithe." "What have you done with our unpredictable friend?" "Me?" "I, uh..." "Ahh, don't tell me...he's out there waiting for the moon to rise or communing with his higher self." "This is Dr. Julian Lange." "Ahh..." "Mr. Murphy." "so, I hear the man brought you through the eye of the needle?" "Excuse me?" "Oh, he's just messing with you." "These are the Greens... they've come from Cornwall to study the ecology here at Burningbush." "Adam, here teaches cosmic ecology at London's free university." "And Eve teaches creative environmental writing." "They've got this wonderful new theory of evolution and golfing links." "I do want to hear what you and Shamus talk about..." "I really do." "I mean this is why I'm going to India." "I'm going to learn about this stuff." "I hope to be a writer someday, actually." "But right now I'm finishing my studies in philosophy." "I'll do it." "This is the most famous golf course in the world." "This is where it all began..." "I've come all the way from California." "I'm only here for the day." "I've played Pebble my whole life, but I've always dreamed of playing Burningbush." "Put me with the best player on that list." "I can match up with anyone... if not better." "[MICHAEL] Hello." "The starter told me to join you two." "Shivas Irons." "Michael Murphy." "Balie McIver." "Let's try a few shots for the set up swing... and a few shots for through gravity... and then a few to score." "Good shot." "How did you know to hit it there?" "That's the best line to the green." "Just luck." "(Shivas Singing)" "[SHIVAS] How you doin'?" "[SHIVAS] Good to see ya..." "[AGATHA] Men loving men... that's what golf is." "[AGATHA] It's a way you've found to get together yet still maintain a proper distance." "But don't get me wrong, you're not like us women... or Italians all hugging embracing each other." "You need to feel your separate love." "Just look..." "You won't come home on time when you're with the boys." "I've learned that over the years." "The love you feel for your friends is too strong for that." "And all those gentlemanly rules... why they're the proper rules of affection." "All the waiting and the "oohing and aahing" over your shots... and this one's drive and that one's putt and the other one's gorgeous swing... what is all that, but love?" "Men loving men...that's what golf is." "I like your swing, Michael." "Your not a professional, now are you...trying to sneak up on us for a wee bit, eh?" "Uh, just an amateur passing through." "Where are you headed?" "India...to a place you've probably never heard of called Pondicherry." "[SHIVAS] In the ashram of Sri Aurobindo, perhaps?" "[MICHAEL] Oh my God, you know it." "No one does back home." "[SHIVAS] Nor do they here." "Nor do they here." "Let's tee it up.." "Any chance of getting a lesson, sir?" "Oh, but... you may not know... but this is a solemn and serious matter." "And just call me Shivas." "Alright...2 or 3 birdies on the par fives... maybe 1 or 2 more... that should give me a shot at a 72." "If not better." "Just hold on now there, Michael." "Wait your turn." "I propose that we all take a turn describing the game of golf." "Each one telling... exactly what this endlessly mysterious game is really about." "It's time we done justice to the subject, and this is just the crowd to do it." "Now..." "Michael, you will remember it all... for posterity." "Peter, your the host...begin." "No, Agatha is." "This is her party." "Well, then Agatha...begin." "Nope, Peter's the one with the ideas." "Well, then, Peter..." "You'll not be gettin' any fancy theories from me." "And I'll keep my speech short." "I'm saying my farewell to the game..." "I've suffered enough with it." "I'd like to propose a toast..." "To Peter's imminent departure... and his predictable return." "Predictable return." "Bring everybody luck." "Okay..." "We do this, you see... every time I give up the game." "[EXCLAIMING]" "What was your score, laddie?" "Don't bother..." "I'll keep my own score." "You have your lesson." "I insist." "Um... a 4 on the 1st... and a 6 on the 2nd with that damned bunker." "[SHIVAS] You had a 5 on the 1st." "You must count that one that you knocked off the tee." "When you had your waggle." "So, a 5 and a 6, then?" "[SHIVAS] Michael... you have to remember... you're in the land where all these rules were invented." "'Tis the only way you can play in the Kingdom." "You must count that one that you knocked off the tee." "When you took your waggle." "Can I hit another?" "I think that one might be lost." "[SHIVAS] No, not here." "[SHIVAS] You can find it in that particular lot." "[SHIVAS] How does it lie?" "[MICHAEL] It fell into a Wynn." "Should I play it or drop out?" "[SHIVAS] No, play it as it lies." "[SHIVAS] Always play it as it lies." "[SHIVAS] It'll come out eventually." "[MICHAEL] Play it as it lies..." "always play it as it lies." "[MICHAEL](under breath) Holy crap." "[SHIVAS] Huh?" "[MICHAEL] I can't even see the damned thing!" "I should drop out." "[SHIVAS] Bring me a bouquet when you come out, yeah?" "[SHIVAS] Keep chopping'..." "it'll come out eventually." "[MICHAEL] 4 on the 1st... 6 on the 2nd." "That damned bunker." "You must count that one that you knocked off the tee when you took your waggle." "when you took your waggle." "You're makin' a great mistake... if you think the game... is meant for the shot." "The game is meant for walking." "Old man Key, there... he showed us how." "With him... you get the spirit in yourself to learn to enjoy every step." "I played with him once." "He was 90 years old... and I'll never forget it." "He sometimes forgot his shots... the walkin' got to be so good." "That's impossible." "He said he learned to walk like that from an Indian Yogi... in the 1880's." "He went on a walk with the Yogi... in the Himalayas." "And he never got over it." "He said "A walk like that... was as good for your soul as a day in church."" "And that was somethin' comin' from him because he was a good Presbyterian." "Noticed you didn't pay much attention to the walkin'." "I pay attention... to my next shot." "[SHIVAS] That's too bad... not enough people do." "It's a shame." "A rotten shame." "Because if you can enjoy the walk... then perhaps you can enjoy the other times in your life... when you're in between." "And that's most of the time." "Couldn't you say?" "Michael, just try using your short irons to finish the hole." "[PETER] First an foremost, we must all agree it's a mysterious game." "[MICHAEL] You're up." "[PETER] Absurd, on the face of it..." "[PETER]...a distraction from more worthwhile activities." "[PETER] A game, supposedly." "A recreation." "[PETER] But 'tis a place of suffering." "[MICHAEL] May I put down another ball?" "[PETER] A place that makes a man naked." "An X-ray on the soul." "[SHIVAS] Now try willing it in ." "It'll never get there in the regular course of things." "[SHIVAS] Shamus McDuff, as all of you know... is the man who invented golf ... all those years ago." "[MICHAEL] He invented golf...that's [SHIVAS] Invented golf." "He's working on it still." "[SHIVAS] And he's blessing Burningbush by choosing to do his special work here, Peter." "Don't be bringing Shamus McDuff into this..." "I can't stand the man." "[SHIVAS] Come on, Peter, Shamus is our great good friend." "[MICHAEL] Who's Shamus McDuff?" "[EVE] Shamus McDuff is the local madman." "[ADAM] Or a very wise man, depending on your point of view." "[PETER] He's a royal pain in the ass." "Why the city ever consented to let him live in that ravine off the 13th green, I'll never know." "[MICHAEL] He lives in the ravine?" "[SHIVAS] Let's just say he spends a good deal of his precious time there." "He's constantly studying the game, working on his theories." "[MICHAEL] What kind of theories?" "[LANGE] Well, apparently he's studying gravity..." "something he now calls true gravity." "[LANGE] His theory explains the alignment of human consciousness... with the physical forces of the universe." "[MICHAEL] So he's a mathematician?" "[SHIVAS] In the Pythagorean tradition.." "I mean, basically he's had to tip the balance of his mind." "in order to study gravity." "You see, he's floating free now so that he can get a better fix upon this world of ours." "[HOWLING] [WHISTLING]" "[SHIVAS] How would you like to meet Shamus McDuff?" "Come, let us call upon him in the midnight hour." "[SHIVAS] There are animals here...all sorts of animals." "[HIGH PITCHED HOWLING] [MICHAEL] What was that?" "[HOWLING CONTINUES] [SHIVAS] That's a Banshee." "[HOWLING CONTINUES] [SHIVAS] Don't worry." "That's just a wee one." "[MICHAEL] Shivas--You wait up?" "Shivas!" "[SHIVAS] Michael, where the hell are ya?" "[MICHAEL] Something grabbed me down there." "[SHIVAS] Michael..." "That's just how it felt." "[SHIVAS] 'Twas a Banshee." "They're harmless... completely harmless." "Except when they're not." "[SHIVAS YELLING]" "[MICHAEL] What are you looking for?" "[SHIVAS] What do you think?" "[SHRIEKING] [MICHAEL] Jesus Christ!" "[SHIVAS] What in the hell is wrong with you now?" "[MICHAEL] That sound." "What's that sound?" "[SHIVAS] It's coming from the ravine... it means the coming of the Northern Lights." "[LANGE] Tomorrow he'll be telling Murphy here, that believing in God is dangerous." "Well, we all know he's the dangerous one." "Oh yeah, he's the dangerous one." "[LANGE] Wouldn't you agree with that, Murphy?" "[MICHAEL] I , I don't know." "I mean, I just met him." "[SHIVAS] Aye, he's not here... we'll wait a while and see if he comes." "[MICHAEL] How long have you known him?" "[SHIVAS] Actually, I met the old man back in '45." "I remember seeing him as a boy." "From time to time reigning a Shetland pony around the lot." "[SHIVAS] Aye, he's not here." "[MICHAEL] Would you think he might be asleep?" "I mean, should we go look?" "[SHIVAS] Oh, no... we'd disturb him something awful." "[SHIVAS] I know his ways... he's not here I tell ya, he's not here." "[SHIVAS] He went into seclusion in the 30's... most figured he'd gone mad." "And then one day I was home on leave... for no apparent reason I was drawn to the old burial ground next to the cathedral." "And there he was, standing in front of the tomb of Old Tom Morris." "Said he was expecting me... said he knew that I'd be there." "This was just 2 weeks after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima." ""The beginning of the end," he said." ""The final sign Man must discover his soul..."" ""...or go the way of the dying species..."" ""...down into the darkest night without end..."" ""...evolution has taken an awful turn..."" ""...and we've not much time to right the balance."" ""You and I have much to do." he said..." ""...for these are our final days."" ""We must make golf a matter of life and death."" "Of course, our collaboration began immediately." "[MICHAEL] Where do you think he went?" "[SHIVAS] Oh...he has other places he goes on occasion." "He loves to work at night... says he can feel  better... the things he's studying." "[MICHAEL] Feel them?" "[SHIVAS] Feel them." "So they say..." "[BALIE] Michael, what'd you have then?" "[MICHAEL] Just give me an "X." I'm not counting that hole." "[BALIE] An "X?"" "[MICHAEL] Give me a 10." "[SHIVAS] I think it was 11, Michael." "[MICHAEL] Alright...11." "[SHIVAS] Michael... don't worry so much about your score." "It's not the important thing." "[MICHAEL] Not the important thing." "[MICHAEL] Score not the important thing?" "While they watch me like hawks." "[MICHAEL] Hit the shot." "Hit the shot." "Hit the shot." "Hit the damn shot." "[MICHAEL] I'll show these guys..." "[SHIVAS AND BILLY] Come on, Michael, you can do it." "[SHIVAS] Oh, very good." "That's a good, see." "[PETER] Some days I love those links." "And other days I hate them." "And it's always different, depending on my mood." "[ADAM] My lovely first and totally original wife, Eve." "[TOGETHER] We were made for each other." "[SHIVAS] Golf...it's like marriage... like marriage, golf is." "[SHIVAS] Aye, a good marriage is as rare, and complex, and fragile as the world itself." "And very like the game of golf." "[PETER] Golf and marriage... both demand a steadfast purpose and imagination." "Persistent will, and a willingness to change." "Long shorts and a gentle stroke." "A deft touch and the occasional gamble." "Steady nerves and a certain wild streak." "And it all has to come together or the whole thing goes kaflooey." "[MICHAEL] I can match up with anyone." "Put me with the best player." "I can match up with anyone." "I can match up with anyone." "If not better." "[SHIVAS] You try too hard." "I can match up with anyone." "[SHIVAS] You think too much." "If not better." "If not better." "[SHIVAS] Why don't you go with your lovely swing... and let the nothingness into your shot?" "[SHIVAS] Oh, look, there's Jimmy." "Jimmy Tumner, how are you?" "[SHIVAS] Nice to see you." "[SHIVAS] See you got the new ones, eh?" "[SHIVAS] That's nice, eh?" "You mind if we do a bit of practice here, Jimmy?" "[SHIVAS] Good man, good man." "Take out your driver, there." "That's it... feet apart, there, that's good." "Just stand on the one leg... that's it." "One leg." "Now get the leg up, up at the back." "Put the arms forward... that's it." "No, keep that up, up, up that's it, that's good." "[SHIVAS] Don't take it so seriously, Billy." "You take it awful serious, now have a wee breath." "Close your eyes, close your eyes." "[BALIE] Come ride me dame, come tell me dame... oh dame come tell me truly... what length of grace when we get home... would sour women duly." "It is, my dear... the ear you fear..." "I fit you to a hear..." "I cleave it up..." "I hit you down... water for it fared." "[BALIE] I learnt a song in Annandale... thy natch will please a lady." "The ox in my plow... he beckoned never a plowed ground... the foremost ox is long and small... the two are plump and round..." "[BALIE] But weary for they throbbed up and may the never be thriving'... it's not the length that makes her dub... but it's the dubba driving'." "And he with speed, the yoke his plow... which by a gourd was driven... but when he went between my stilts..." "I thought I was in heaven." "[LANGE] Shamus McDuff is the one sane man amongst us here." "He is , in fact, the only sanemanamongstushere ." "[LANGE] His mind may seem a little off-kilter, that's because this world of ours has gotten off its axis" "He's just re-adjusting his sights..." "I mean, can any of us here say we're doing any better?" "Shamus... taught me everything I know about the game." "He is my truest teacher." "[SHIVAS] How would you like to see his weapon?" "[SHIVAS] Shamus... he calls this his baffid spoon." "It's a name he remembers from his childhood." "Shamus says "You only need one stick to play the game." But this is no ordinary stick." "And this... is his feathery." "He found it in the ravine... this is the real McCoy." "Made from feathers and leather." "And soaked in brine." "Now you see... you see that target?" "That target there?" "Watch this..." "Sometimes you think the ball will just never come down." "You ever had that feelin'?" "[MICHAEL] Shivas, there he is." "Look, there he is." "[SHIVAS]...know to hit it there?" "That's the best line to the green." "[SHIVAS] Where?" "[MICHAEL] Right there, look." "[SHIVAS] I don't see him." "Where are you pointing' I don't see him at all." "[MICHAEL] Look, right there." "[ADAM] Golf re-capitulates evolution." "'Tis a microcosm of the world... a projection of all of our hopes and fears." "Take our love of the balls flight... the sight of it hanging there in space... anticipates our desire for transcendence." "The thrill of seeing it fly over the land, over obstacles, especially over a stretch of water... and then onto the green... and into the hole." "Ahh...that's a mystical quality..." "There is something in us, something in all of us... that loves that flight." "[EVE] The flight of the alone to the alone." "[SHIVAS] That's the sound we want." "[EVE] The flight of the alone to the alone." "[MICHAEL] I think I saw something... but it must have been a trick of the retina, with the sun" "[SHIVAS] No, Michael... you think it's a trick of the retina you're just one step away from seein' things." "[SHIVAS] Keep swingin'." "[SHIVAS] I want you...to try something... for me." "[SHIVAS] Will you do it?" "[SHIVAS] Alright... when you swing..." "I want you to put all your attention... on your inner body." "Your inner body." "Feel your inner body." "That's it..." "Close your eyes, Michael." "Close your eyes." "[SHIVAS] Ok, that's enough..." "remember that feelin'." "Remember that feelin', Michael." "Your inner body is waiting... for your attention." "[ADAM] Have you ever pondered the mystery of the hole?" "Have you?" "Come on, what are its past and future connotations?" "And a hole in one..." "[LANGE] You shouldn't encourage him with this kind of thinking." "[ADAM] Have you ever thought about that?" "[LANGE] What was it?" "The flight of the alone to the alone?" "[LANGE] I mean, seriously, are you equating your average golfer with the ancient philosopher Plotinus?" "[ADAM] It's so, so real." "[EVE] We know in our souls what we are meant to be... so we are attracted by any glimpse of greater possibilities." "[ADAM] There are moments in every golfers game... where he or she feels this marvelous state of mind... where the conflict of matter and mind, body and spirit... are resolved." "[SHIVAS] Sometimes you think the ball will just never come down." "[MICHAEL] Yes!" "[EVE] Where flesh helps soul no less than soul helps flesh." "[ADAM] And now with all the great technological advances in balls and clubs... and courses." "Well, golf is becoming an even better vehicle for training the higher capacities." "All signals that it is becoming the yoga of the super-mind." "It's the ultimate discipline for transcendence." "[LANGE] There are signals of the damned along with signals of transcendence." "Look, you can see any damned signals you want in the game." "Now, see how spellbound we are with the warden around us." "Hypnotized from morning till night by the... influence human or otherwise, that impinges on our senses." "Every theory you propose about the evolution of the game I will show you..." "How the game is fading away, losing its charm." "Being mechanized by the Americans and the rest of the world that blindly follow them." "Look at the crowded links... the lack of leisure..." "I've seen twisted lives twist our bodies into making distorted swings." "And how the electric carts, how they've ruined our courses... and robbed us of our exercise." "How the desire for greener greens has polluted the land." "Now where is the evolution in all that?" "We're all hypnotized, I tell you." "You're just refusing to see the fact." "We all sit here just getting high on whiskey." "Painting glorious pictures on the meaning of golf..." "The world outside grows ever darker." "[SHIVAS] What are you thinkin'?" "[MICHAEL] I blew it." "[Michael] I used the wrong  damned club." "[SHIVAS] Those thoughts will pass-- if you don't fight them." "[SHIVAS] Wait them out." "[SHIVAS] I expect you heard that from your Indian teacher?" "[AGATHA] I think the loss of love in the world is Julian's real despair." "Whatever his philosophizing tells him... he misses the leisurely pace when there was time for affection." "Time for reflection." "I miss it too." "We hurry through our days..." "[SHIVAS] What are you thinkin'?" "[SHIVAS] Tell me what you're thinkin'." "[MICHAEL] This inner body stuff-- it can't last." "It came too easily." "Isn't all this talk of inner bodies and subtle energies just a device for helping concentration?" "[SHIVAS] There are two Michaels I see..." "Michael the plunger... and Michael the doubter." "You can't sit there for more than five minutes... without your good mind interrupting you." "Watch out for your good mind, Michael." "[MICHAEL] Still, I think any change in routine would force better concentration." "[MICHAEL] I mean, don't you think Shamus might be a little off living in this ungodly ravine?" "[SHIVAS] I can see by the way you're talkin' that the world is not yet ready for Shamus." "[SHIVAS] To swing the man's baffid spoon... and still to question the man?" "[MICHAEL] I guess it doesn't matter what I think, right?" "As long as I feel it." "It's the experience that's the important thing, right?" "I mean, look, Shamus is obviously an incredible person whether he's mad or not." "[SHIVAS] Whether he's mad or not?" "It's your world that's mad." "Young man." "Let's go." "I can see this has been a mistake." "[MICHAEL] Wait, no." "Please..." "Please, Shivas." "Let's wait for Shamus." "[SHIVAS] Get off your knees." "You look like you're gonna ask me to marry you." "[MICHAEL] I do want to hear what you and Shamus talk about." "I really do." "[SHIVAS] The world is not ready yet for Shamus." "[MICHAEL] Yeah, but I'm different." "I mean, this is why I'm going to India to learn about this stuff." "[SHIVAS] The world wasn't ready for Pythagoras, either." "Pythagoras had the clue." "[MICHAEL] I know all about Pythagoras." "[SHIVAS] You know what you've read in your books in your fancy school." "[SHIVAS] The world should have taken its lead from Pythagoras." "To know the world from the inside, not the outside, as we do." "Like I showed you in the golf shots, there." "True gravity... that's Shamus' term for the deeper lanes of forces... for the deeper structure of the universe." "But this is it." "You have to live into it, yourself." "You can't poke it and shove it the way they do in the universities and your laboratories..." "You must get right into the heart of it..." "You must sense it... through your body, through your feelings... through your living experience, level after level... right into the heart of it." "And that's why you won't see me giving any tips to your golf swings, and these... how-to books." "I won't do it." "Because you have to start from inside yourself." "Like I showed you.." "[SHIVAS] Here Michael...swing from your inside." "Go on, from your inner body, Michael." "[SHIVAS] Close your eyes." "Let all your power come from your center." "That's it." "Good." "[AGATHA] Golf is for smellin' heather and cut grass... and walking across the countryside." "It's for feelin' the wind... watchin' the sun go down" "It's noticing the splendor of this good world with every step you take." "[SHIVAS] Good day, chaps...good day." "[SHIVAS] You know..." "I've often wondered what it would be like to play the course... with the old spoon." "I've often been tempted..." "when he's not around." "Why don't we did it?" "[MICHAEL] What, you mean now, in the dark?" "[SHIVAS] Right now...with one of the featheries." "[MICHAEL] What if we lose them?" "[SHIVAS] That's what scares me about it." "[SHIVAS] Do you think that we should do this?" "[MICHAEL] Well, I'm not." "That's for sure." "[SHIVAS] I think you might be right." "SHIVAS] What do you think?" "[MICHAEL] What would Shamus do if you lose the ball?" "[SHIVAS] It's not an offer..." "What do you think?" "!" "[MICHAEL] Like I said..." "I'm not hitting any." "[SHIVAS] You go first, I'll take my line from your shot." "[MICHAEL] No, not me." "[SHIVAS] I'll take my line from your shot." "[SHIVAS BELLOWING]" "[SHIVAS] Here, Michael, go." "It'll do you the world of good." "Come on." "Come on, try just once." "Just once." "Just one." "I did it!" "I did it!" "The old baffin spoon did it!" "Yeah!" "Come on, come on, come on." "[MICHAEL] Did you see something?" "[SHIVAS] You see it?" "[MICHAEL] Maybe it fell in the gorse." "[SHIVAS] I don't see it." "[SHIVAS] I hit it over the green if I hit it anywhere." "[SHIVAS] Oh God..." "I'll be damned." "[SHIVAS] You see it?" "MICHAEL] Shivas...it's in the cup!" "Shivas, it's here." "It's in the hole!" "You got a hole-in-one!" "[SHIVAS EXCLAIMS]" "[SHIVAS] I never had a hole-in-one on the 13th before." "Saved my life." "The old spoon saved my life." "[SHIVAS] They're coming from over there... from the church." "And also, inside of you." "[BALIE] A 77 for Mr. Irons, an 84 for myself, and for wee lad here--an 86." "And Michael, you had a 34 coming in--same as Mr. Irons... which just proves that true gravity works on this plane too." "[MICHAEL] Thank you." "[SHIVAS] See you in the bar, Balie?" "[MICHAEL] Can I at least go in Shamus' cave?" "[SHIVAS] No." "It's as cursed to strangers as King Tut's tomb." "You might not survive it, Michael." "[SHIVAS] Michael...what you could yell?" "Like this..." "[SHIVAS YELLING]" "[SHIVAS] Try it, just once." "[MICHAEL YELLING]" "[SHIVAS] Michael, best way to kill a dragon is to run right up to it and shove a spear down its throat." "[MICHAEL YELLING] [SHIVAS YELLING]" "[MICHAEL] You seem to know a lot about Indian philosophy... you ever thought about going there?" "[SHIVAS] To India?" "No." "Are you asking me to go with ya?" "[MICHAEL] No, I uh..." "I was just wondering if you ever felt the call to go there." "I mean, you're not your typical golf pro." "[SHIVAS] Do you think I belong in an ashram, Michael?" "Do you think I'm like a regular dues-paying yogi, do ya?" "[MICHAEL] Well, yes." "Yes, I do." "[SHIVAS] Listen..." "Burningbush is my ashram...aye?" "And the best place for me... to practice." "What we glimpsed tonight... to give something back to the world..." "If it's freedom you want, Michael... if it's freedom that you love... the whole world can be your ashram." "Let's get some tea, yeah?" "[MICHAEL] I'm actually hoping to be a writer one day." "But right now I'm finishing up my studies in philosophy." "[LANGE] Well then Murphy, as an aspiring man of words... would you tell me whether they have a future?" "They've had a dismal past." "[SHIVAS] I do have some...writings." "But they're... they're daft...they're funny writings." "[MICHAEL] I'd love to see anything you've written." "[SHIVAS] No, no, no." "[SHIVAS] They wouldn't be as polished as you would be used to." "[MICHAEL] I don't care..." "[SHIVAS] Nobody's ever seen them--only Julian and Shamus." "[SHIVAS] Here they are." "[SHIVAS] What do you think?" "[MICHAEL] Well, I have to read them first." "[SHIVAS] Of course." "[MICHAEL] Golf is an exercise in perspective... every shot requires... that you estimate where you are... in relation to the target." "Enough golf springs you free..." "Free from what?" "[SHIVAS] From your attachment to any point." "Somewhere in your brain... it senses the relativity of things." "Keep asking' the questions, Michael..." "The best ones... don't have answers." "[SHIVAS] Sit, you need a rest." "[SHIVAS] A recipe from Afghanistan." "Brought here by my friends in the Blackwatch." "[SHIVAS] My place of meditation." "[MICHAEL] You know, I have an early train to catch." "How far is the station?" "[MICHAEL] Sorry Shivas, I can't stay." "[MICHAEL] Shivas!" "[MICHAEL] Shivas!" "[MICHAEL] Shivas!" "[MICHAEL] Shivas!" "[MICHAEL] Shivas, wake up!" "[MICHAEL] Shivas, come on, wake up!" "Hey, wake up!" "Help!" "Help!" "Somebody's dying!" "[MICHAEL] Hello?" "[WOMAN] We're havin' a wee bit of trouble love, just hold on." "[MAN] Hi, what is it?" "[MICHAEL] Somebody's dying!" "[MAN] Well, what is he dying of, son?" "[MICHAEL] I don't know." "Look, I don't know!" "[SHIVAS] Michael." "[MICHAEL] Oh God!" "[SHIVAS] Tell the I'm fine." "Tell the I'm fine." "[MICHAEL] You scared me." "[MAN] Are you still there?" "Hello?" "[MICHAEL] I'm sorry... everything's alright." "[SHIVAS] Have I been gone long?" "[MICHAEL] I don't know... but it felt like forever." "[SHIVAS CHANTING]" "[MICHAEL] Shit!" "You scared me to death!" "[SHIVAS] Don't you know that we're just flying here--like kites?" "Nothing more than a thread holding... we're all kites in that way." "We're all kites in that way." "[MICHAEL] I just told you everything's alright." "[MAN] Is that Shamus McDuff?" "[WOMAN] That's Evan Tyree, the local champion." "[WOMAN] He's just won a very important British tournament." "[WOMAN] He's Shivas' most famous pupil." "[MICHAEL] Pay attention." "[EVAN] I'll need my champions crown if I am to speak." "[EVAN] But I won't speak of golf." "[LANGE] Thank God for that." "[EVAN] I can only tell you... about my teacher." "[EVAN] For it was he who showed me the way." "[EVAN] And taught me all the graces of the game." "This is why you're going to India." "[EVAN] To hold my tempo between par and bogey..." "But moreover, he showed me the religion of the game." "[SHIVAS] Religion, eh?" "[PETER] Shivas, I yield to you to give the final word." "[SHIVAS] I don't know anything about the subject." "[LANGE] Enough with these ridiculous excuses." "[SHIVAS] It's to enjoy yourself..." "Enjoy yourself." "And beware the quicksands of perfection." "[SHIVAS] Close your eyes, Michael." "Close your eyes." "[SHIVAS] You fancy a drink, do ya?" "[SHIVAS] Oh, that's the mad dog." "Takes care of the course--guards the course." "[SHIVAS] I'm against writing... because of the amount of books that are already in the world." "[SHIVAS] It's the livin' of these things that counts... the livin' of them." "[MICHAEL] Golf is an exercise in perspective." "[MICHAEL] Every shot requires that you estimate where you are in relation to the target." "Enough golf springs you free." "Free from what?" "[SHIVAS] Keep asking' the questions, Michael." "The best ones...don't have answers." "[SHIVAS] That's it." "Just kites in the wind." "Shivas Irons." "Michael Murphy." "[SHIVAS] That's the sound we want."