‘The Phantom of the Open’ scores a heartfelt birdie

“The Phantom of the Open” (2022) – Maurice Flitcroft’s (Mark Rylance) sports story can’t be true.  No way.  It’s impossible. It couldn’t have happened, except it did. Maurice Flitcroft, a crane driver from the seaside town of Barrow-in-Furness, England, entered the 1976 British Open without ever playing a round of golf before in his 40-something years on Planet Earth. He’s an athletic underdog of the highest order.  In some ways, not unlike the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team, Rudy Ruettiger, James ‘Buster’ Douglas, or the fictional Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), except…