official site: www.fromtheroughmovie.com According to director Pierre Bagley, the release of the movie is being held up until the film is "broadened." source: rolandmartinreports.com The official FROM THE ROUGH movie blog fromtheroughmovie.tumblr.com FROM THE ROUGH is based on the true story of Catana Starks, a former swim coach at Tennessee State University who became the first woman ever to coach a college men's golf team. With drive, passion, and guts, she took an unruly group of mismatched kids from around the world and guided them to an all-time record at the PGA National Collegiate Minority Championship. Tasked with building Tennessee State's first golf team and finding only one available African American golfer -- Craig, a former caddy with plenty of talent but no confidence -- Catana Starks pushes outside TSU's Historically Black context, and, against huge resistance, opens up the roster to underprivileged kids from around the world: Edward, a lower class British youth with a rakish charm and a contempt for authority; Bassam, a French-Algerian from Paris, angry about the discrimination of his people, soft-spoken but likely to explode; Cameron, an Australian from a single-parent household with a childhood spent working, using golf as means to escape; and Ji-Kyung, a disaffected South Korean from Orange County with a love of hip hop. Finding each of these wildly different players in places around the world is tough. Getting them to come together as a team is tougher <b>...</b>
Golf
Tom Felton
From The Rough
