The Golf Specialist is a 1930 pre-Code comedy short subject released by RKO Radio Pictures, and starring W. C. Fields. It was his first talkie. The film was produced at the Ideal studio in Hudson Heights, New Jersey. Many pioneer film studios in America were based in New Jersey, and a few of these production facilities were still being used in 1930.

Plot

In a Florida hotel, the house detective's wife is an incessant flirt. When the detective catches her approaching a man, he bends the unfortunate man into a circle and rolls him out the door. Deep Sea McGurk asks the desk clerk for J. Effington Bellweather, but he is not in. McGurk dictates a angry note for Bellweather -- he wants to collect the $40 Bellweather owes him.