Who’s Your Caddy

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One of the destinations this year for the Motoring Challenge is “Location Filmed in Movie.” Our first thought was Heavy’s BBQ near Crawfordville, GA. It was used as the bar Stella’s Roadhouse in Sweet Home Alabama, but remembering our lousy meal we had there and it doesn’t look on the outside much like it did in the movie any more, we shot it down.

My next thought was the 1994 movie Nell because some of the scenes were filmed in Robbinsville, NC the gateway to the Tail of the Dragon. Any excuse to get to the mountains of western North Carolina & east Tennessee.

Thinking back closer to home, Disney remade the 1965 movie, That Darn Cat in Edgefield, SC just 25 miles up the road. The 1997 version of That Darn Cat starred Christina Ricci in the Haley Mills role and the production company painted practically every business building that fronted the town square.

Then I remembered there was a movie filmed even closer to home, because it was filmed right here in our Fair City, Aiken, SC. The cinematic masterpiece Who’s Your Caddy, that has a 6% score on Rotten Tomatoes, was the talk of the town back in 2007.

I was fully prepared to watch the whole movie just so I could find a recognizable Aiken landmark, but was spared the ignominy when within a minute and a half the hip hop moguls pull up to the clubhouse of the “Carolina Pines Golf & Polo Club” and it is The Wilcox, a historic Inn that was voted one of top 50 small hotel by readers of Condé Nast Traveler.

Now I just have to figure out how to get a half dozen stogy old white guys smoking cigars to be sitting in the white rocking chairs out front when I take the photo.