January 4, 2021 | BY AAGD STAFF
A Scottish golf course is where the ashes of actor Sean Connery will be scattered, according to his widow Micheline Roquebrune who spoke with the Mail on Sunday. The couple was married for over 45-years. Micheline, said that her late husband, an avid golfer who is famously known for his role as James Bond, would have approved of the decision. Connery, age 90, died peacefully in his sleep at his home in the Bahamas on October 31, 2020, having been ill for some time.
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Unclear, as of yet, is which golf golf course will be chosen for Connery’s final resting place, but the Old Course at St Andrews and Bruntsfield Links in Edinburgh are both thought to be in the equation.
Connery grew up in Bruntsfield, just down the road from Bruntsfield Links and he attended Bruntsfield Primary School. He was also a member of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews and regularly played the Old Course.
An award-winning actor whose career spanned five decades, Connery, best known for playing James Bond in six official 007 capers on the big screen,
His body of work also included the likes of The Rock, The Hunt For Red October, Highlander, Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade and The Untouchables. The latter earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1988.
Away from the silver screen, Connery was a golf fanatic, who took up the game for a famous scene in Goldfinger in which Bond takes on the titular villain at Stoke Park Golf Club. He would go on to become a regular in celebrity events and pro-ams.
In his 2008 book ‘Being A Scot’, Connery shared how he got hooked on playing the royal and ancient game, writing: “I never had a hankering to play golf, despite growing up in Scotland just down the road from Bruntsfield Links. It wasn’t until I was taught enough golf to look as though I could outwit the accomplished golfer Gert Frobe in Goldfinger that I got the bug.
“I began to take lessons on a course near the Pinewood film studios, and was immediately hooked on the game. Soon it would nearly take over my life. I began to see golf as a metaphor for living, for in golf you are basically on your own, competing against yourself and always trying to do better. If you cheat, you will be the loser, because you are cheating yourself.”
