

Each year, the world’s best 7 year-old golfers descend on Pinehurst, North Carolina to compete in the World Championships of Junior Golf. The Short Game follows eight of these very young athletes on their quest to become the sport’s next phenom.
Direction
Greenbaum finds genuine stakes in miniature golf bags
Production
Pinehurst as character—gorgeous, suffocating, relentless

Director
Josh Greenbaum
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Several featured kids later quit competitive golf entirely; one became a TikTok influencer.
Released during the Tiger Woods era, it unintentionally documents the final gasp of golf-parent industrial complex optimism.
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