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Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac...It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!
— Caddyshack ‧ 1980
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What it means
Our interpretation.
Carl lives in his own head, and for thirty seconds the film lets us live there too, a sports broadcast in a flowerbed. It captures a kind of daydream that every kid with a club has played out loud, which is why "Cinderella story" and "it's in the hole" are still shouted on courses and in commentary boxes, and why the scene is remembered as proof of how much of Murray's best work was improvised.
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In context
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In Caddyshack (1980), the unstable Bushwood greenskeeper Carl Spackler stands in an ornamental flowerbed and turns into a golf announcer, narrating his own imaginary win at the Masters at Augusta. He swings a grass whip at the flowers as if they were golf balls, calls himself a Cinderella story, and finishes with the ball dropping in the hole. Bill Murray improvised much of it from two lines of stage direction, and director Harold Ramis told him to act like a child. Murray was on the production for only six days. The American Film Institute ranks part of the speech #92.
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