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• Factual errors: Having the best score on the 17th, Junuh should have teed-off first on the 18th tee, not last.
  
  
• Factual errors: There are many infractions of the rules of golf throughout the movie.
  
  
• Continuity: When the score is dead even between all three golfers, you can see the scoreboard showing Jones and Junuh 2 strokes behind Hagen. You can only see this when Junuh finishes talking to Bagger Vance and walks away, because the sign is right behind him.
  
  

• Anachronisms: There is a John Deere model A or B tractor in the shop. These tractors did not begin production until 1934. The sheet metal indicates the tractor is a 1939 or later model.
  
  
• Continuity: When Junuh leaves the hotel and is driving down the road, people are waving to him on the side of the road. However, as he passes them by they are no longer visible in the rear window of the truck.
  
  
• Continuity: On the 18th hole of the final round, Hagen chips a good 3 feet past the hole, and the ball is still moving when we cut away. When he goes to putt out he taps in a putt just inches from the hole.
  
  
• Continuity: When Junuh is driving his car, he is stopped at an intersection in town by a throng of admirers who completely surround the car; however, in the next shot there are no admirers seen out his back window, and the road behind him is wooded.
  
  
• Factual errors: The second day of the match is a Sunday. The barber shop is open and the father is working a street sweeper - both unlikely to occur on a Sunday in the 1920s in the South.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The opening scenes tells Junuh's history in flashbacks by zooming in on photos published in newspapers. Newspapers use black ink, which present a challenge for printing shades of gray. A half-tone process was developed in which photos were printed by using tiny black dots that blend in with the white space around them and appear gray to the eye at a distance. In close-up, the photos should have appeared as a conglomeration of dots. Instead, they appear crisp with smooth gradations, suggesting they zoomed in on actual photos instead of a newspaper.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Bobby Jones tells Junuh he is going to retire from golf after the tournament, which would set the movie in 1930. However, in another scene a movie theatre is showing "The Public Enemy" with James Cagney, which wasn't released until 1931.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Bagger is instructing Junuh about "The Field", (Second Round, first day) he hands him a ball on a red tee. The tee is a plastic one. (Note the shape of the tee having a notch for fingers, rather than a single surface tee). At that era the tees were all wood. Plastic tees were not introduced to the game until the 1990's and did not become official for tournament play until late that decade.
  
  
• Factual errors: The big golf match takes place in 1930. There are numerous scenes of drinking in a very socially acceptable and legal manner. However, during 1930 the U.S. was under Prohibition, which was not repealed until 1933.
  
  
• Continuity: On the first hole of the three man contest, Junuh hits his shot in the sand. The camera shows the ball sitting on top of the sand. When Junuh goes to hit the ball out of the sand, it is very clearly buried in the sand.
  
  
• Factual errors: On the last hole of the match when Junuh's ball moved, he had already taken his stance to hit it and under the rules of golf, would have been deemed to have moved the ball therefore incurring a penalty of one stroke, which he properly assessed to himself. However, he did not replace the ball in the original position prior to hitting it. This should have resulted in a two-stroke penalty (Rule 20-3). Assuming they were playing by the rules, Junuh should have either lost the match by two strokes due to this penalty or more likely, should have been disqualified for submitting an incorrect scorecard.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Adele pulls Junah aside to ask about her having to wait ten years to see him again, when he goes to hit the ball on the tee box, there is no ball to hit.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Bagger is explaining how grass "moves" to Hardy, he points to his right and says the sun rises from there, meaning east, which would mean he is facing north. However, he then sweeps his arm in front of him right to left and states that's the direction of the sun. It's not east to north to west, though-it's east to south to west.
  
  

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