Stick (TV series)

Stick is an American sports comedy television series created by Jason Keller for Apple TV+ and starring Owen Wilson as a former professional golfer. The series premiered on June 4, 2025. In July 2025, the series was renewed for a second season.

Stick
Genre	Sports comedy
Created by	Jason Keller
Starring	Owen Wilson Peter Dager Lilli Kay Mariana Treviño Marc Maron
Theme music composer	Caamp
Composer	Zachary Dawes
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	10
Production
Executive producers	Jason Keller Christopher Moynihan Ben Silverman Guymon Casady Rodney Ferrell Howard T. Owens Drew Buckley Lee Eisenberg Natalie Sandy Bill Callahan Owen Wilson Valerie Faris Jonathan Dayton Jaffar Mahmood
Producers	Kathy Gilroy James Thompson III
Cinematography	Corey Walter Stephen Maier
Editors	Melissa McCoy Daniel Gabbe Ivan Victor
Running time	29–45 minutes
Production companies	Propagate Entertainment 360 Kellerama Apple Studios
Original release
Network	Apple TV+
Release	June 4, 2025 (2025-06-04) – present

Premise

A long-washed-up professional golfer turns towards a rising young star in the game to turn things around.

Cast

Main

• Owen Wilson as Pryce Cahill, a former professional golfer who is now a golf club salesman and coach
• Peter Dager as Santi Wheeler, a gifted golfer who quit after his father left his mother
• Lilli Kay as Zero, a bartender at Sparling Meadows
• Mariana Treviño as Elena Wheeler, Santi's mother
• Marc Maron as Mitts, Pryce's friend and former caddy

Recurring

• Judy Greer as Amber-Linn, Pryce's ex-wife
• Timothy Olyphant as Clark Ross,^[1] Pryce's former playing partner and rival

Guests

• Aaron Douglas as Dale, a customer at Pryce's store
• Donavon Stinson as Ben Putman, Amber-Linn's new boyfriend
• Rob Benedict as Chuck Gray, a participant in a golf tournament Pryce challenges
• Ryan Kiera Armstrong as Angela
• Louie Chaplin Moss as Jett Cahill (7 years old), Pryce's deceased son
  • Caden Dragomer as Jett Cahill (13 years old)
  • Aidan Merwarth as Jett Cahill (18 years old)
• Mackenzie Astin as Gary Wheeler, Santi's absentee father and Elena's ex-husband
• Jim Nantz as himself, a ReadySafe Invitational commenter
• Trevor Immelman as himself, a ReadySafe Invitational commenter
• Keegan Bradley as himself, a professional golfer at the ReadySafe Invitational
• Wyndham Clark as himself, another professional golfer at the ReadySafe Invitational
• Max Homa as himself, a fellow professional golfer at the ReadySafe Invitational
• Brad Dalke as himself, a professional golfer at the ReadySafe Invitational
• Collin Morikawa as himself, a professional golfer that is leading the ReadySafe Invitational tournament

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date [2]
1	"Pilot"	Valerie Faris & Jonathan Dayton	Jason Keller	June 4, 2025 (2025-06-04)
Pryce Cahill is a former professional golfer working at a golf store and selling golf clubs. His ex-wife, Amber-Linn, pressures him to sell their house. While coaching at the driving range, Pryce sees Santi hitting the ball with incredible accuracy and distance. He contacts Santi and his mother, Elena, and suggests that he should take Santi on tour. Elena demands that Pryce pays for all expenses, as well as pays her $100,000. Pryce demands that Amber-Linn pays him $100,000 to sell the house, and explains that it is to support Santi's golf attempts. Before leaving his house, Pryce watches an old home video, showing him and Amber-Linn during their marriage, and with their infant child.
2	"Grossweiner's Law"	Valerie Faris & Jonathan Dayton	Jason Keller	June 4, 2025 (2025-06-04)
Pryce takes Santi to buy new golf clubs, and he explains to him the importance of not worrying about previous or future shots. Pryce gets $100,000 from Amber-Linn, and meets her coworker, Ben. Pryce convinces Mitts to travel with them, but is arrested for excessive parking tickets. Amber-Linn bails out Pryce, and Pryce learns that Amber-Linn is dating Ben, much to his disappointment. Pryce and Mitts convince Elena and Santi to go on tour with them.
3	"Daddy Issues"	David Dobkin	Jason Keller & Christopher Moynihan	June 4, 2025 (2025-06-04)
At their first tournament, Pryce bets on Santi, but becomes disappointed that Santi is not doing well. He proceeds to lecture Santi, which upsets him. Santi leaves the golf course, but gets inspiration from Zero, a recently fired bartender from the golf course. Mitts becomes stuck in the mobile home bed, and needs to be rescued by Elena. Santi wins his tournament, but is not happy with Pryce's leadership.
4	"Zero Sum Game"	David Dobkin	Esti Giordani	June 11, 2025 (2025-06-11)
Pryce attempts to mend his relationship with Santi, who is more interested in spending time with Zero. He confronts Elena over Santi's lack of dedication to golf, and Elena suggests that she holds him to his commitment to practice. Mitts informs Elena that Pryce had a child who died at the age of four from cancer. Pryce goes to a swimming quarry and lectures Santi, who is not receptive of his criticism. That night, Pryce realizes that Santi will only listen to Zero, and hires them to be Santi's caddie.
5	"The Birdie Machine"	Jaffar Mahmood	Bill Callahan	June 18, 2025 (2025-06-18)
Pryce teaches Zero to be a caddy and assist Santi in a tournament. Zero opens up to Elena, and reveals their past family struggles. With Zero's help, Santi wins the tournament. At the next campsite, the group gets along, and Zero and Santi kiss.
6	"RV Shangri-La"	Jaffar Mahmood	Kate Fodor	June 25, 2025 (2025-06-25)
Zero and Santi practice golf at a campground rest day before the U.S. Amateur Championship, and grow closer. In the locker room, Santi asks Pryce for advice on Zero. Elena pitches a helium balloon business to Mitts, who doesn't answer. Zero and Santi share an intimate moment at the pool. Later, Santi finds Pryce's ring in Zero's bag at the arcade. Pryce recalls his late son Jett and calls his ex-wife Amber-Linn. Santi asks him to play pickleball. Elena tells Mitts she is sick of listening to men her whole life, and encourages him to take a risk. Mitts kisses her unexpectedly and is silent after. At the U.S. Amateur Championship, Pryce and Zero get caught in their lie, and Zero reveals Pryce is paying them to caddy. Feeling betrayed by both, Santi calls Zero a clown, insults Pryce, and storms off.
7	"Dreams Never Remembered"	M.J. Delaney	Jason Keller & Bryan Johnson	July 2, 2025 (2025-07-02)
The episode begins with "what if" scenarios, showing Pryce's life with Amber-Linn and their son Jett at different ages, including moments of childhood mischief and teenage rebellion. When he goes to college, Pryce worries about losing contact with him. In the present at a diner, Santi plans to leave with Elena back to Indiana, who tells him Zero really did like him. Santi says he quit golf to test his dads love and believes he never loved him. At the airport, Pryce arrives, tells Santi that spending time with him was the best part of the past eight weeks. As Santi and Elena board the plane, Santi rushes back to Pryce trying to return his ticket and tells him he wants to compete in the Ready Safe Invitational. Mitts goes to drop Zero at the bus station, and they tell Mitts they feel hurt by Santi's insults and admits they needed the money Pryce paid them. Mitts tells them Santi is also hurting and they should consider his perspective. Zero leaves briefly before Santi arrives to talk to them for their plan.
8	"Clark the Mark"	M.J. Delaney	Jimy Shah	July 9, 2025 (2025-07-09)
Episode 8 begins with Clark Ross rehearsing a speech about disliking prepared speeches to promote the Ross Golf Academy. Clark meets with a "reporter," who is actually Zero, and quickly sets up a dinner date. Pryce is also at the bar during this time. At the dinner table, Santi goes up to them in excitement 3 times about going pro and asks Clark for a Sponsor Exemption. Clark dismisses him, getting annoyed, saying he needs to do the hard work first. Pryce interrupts, criticizing Clark for being charming but only ranking 51st in Sawgrass, where Pryce had his "Happy Gilmore" moment. Mitts, planted at the bar, helps set up a shot glass golf game. Clark wins initially, but when Zero whispers to Clark to do another round, Santi gets angry and calls them a clown. Zero gets angry reveals that Pryce's whole plan was to get Santi the exemption through a hustle. Clark learns Pryce gave Elena $100,000 as part of this plan and agrees to one final match on the green. Pryce wins the match, and Clark has to give him the exemption. The episode ends revealing the entire sequence was a hustle to secure Santi's Sponsor Exemption.
9	"Showtime"	John Hamburg	Christopher Moynihan	July 16, 2025 (2025-07-16)
Santi doesn't play well in the first round of the Ready Safe Invitational. After the round, Clark Ross schmoozes Santi and plants seeds of doubt about his future with Pryce, who often takes shortcuts, as his coach. During round 2, Pryce sees Santi doubting himself and advises him to take a shortcut via the fairway of an adjacent hole, and then through the trees to the green of the hole in play (allowed but deemed "insane"). Santi balks at the idea of taking a shortcut, but Pryce makes a case for shortcuts in life, Santi Eagles the hole, makes the cut to round 3 and becomes a media sensation for his wild approach to that hole. Mitts and Elena have much more successful moment, Pryce and Amber-Linn almost do, but think better of the idea. The next morning at the hotel breakfast buffet, a "fan", who turns out to be Santi's father, approaches Pryce. Elena arrives and disapprovingly recognizes her ex/Santi's dad. Santi and Zero also arrive and, after a moment of hesitation, Santi and his dad hug.
10	"Déjà Vu All Over Again"	John Hamburg	Ryan Hooper	July 23, 2025 (2025-07-23)

Production

It was announced in March 2024 that Owen Wilson was cast to star in the series with Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris set as directors.^[3] Peter Dager, Marc Maron, Mariana Treviño, Jamie Neumann and Lilli Kay would be added to the cast in the following months.^{[4][5][6][7][8]} In August, Judy Greer would join the cast to replace Neumann, who exited for unknown reasons.^[9] Timothy Olyphant would also join the cast in a guest role capacity.^[1]

Filming on the series began on May 29, 2024, in Vancouver under the working title Rambler & the Birdie Machine, and was due to run until September 13.^[10] In February 2025, Apple announced the series, now titled Stick, would premiere on June 4, 2025.^[11] On July 23, 2025, Apple TV+ renewed the series for a second season.^[12]

Reception

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 82% approval rating based on 60 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Carried along by Owen Wilson's laconic charm, Stick is a sports comedy that putts predictably but accomplishes its aim of gentle entertainment commendably under par."^[13] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, gave a score of 62 out of 100 based on 27 critics, indicating "generally favorable".^[14]