From The Golf Room

     Here’s a line you’ll either recognize or you won’t: “ This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather. ” If you don’t recognize this little gem, you’ve either never seen Groundhog Day or you’re not a fan of what is, in my opinion, one of the best films of the last 40 years. I write this as the calendar Groundhog Day is coming to a close and I have just watched the movie for, oh, the millionth time. It seems only fitting to celebrate what will almost undoubtedly join It’s a Wonderful Life in the pantheon of America’s most uplifting, morally serious, enjoyable, and timeless movies.      When I set out to write this (and I have wanted to do this for a number of years), I thought it would be fun to do a quirky homage to an offbeat flick, one I think is brilliant as both comedy and moral philosophy. But while doing what I intended to be cursory research (I mean, how much reporti...