New Apple TV+ Show Helps Owen Wilson Reconnect with Golf Roots

elected in the eighth round of the first MLB draft in 1965; he then appeared in nine games as a pitcher for the Twins in 1966 and ’68 before leaving baseball for a business career.“His story has always rolled around in my head, what that must have been like to spend the first 24 years of your life focused on a game, then resetting and choosing a different path,” Keller says of his dad. “That little point of inflection in my father’s life has always fascinated me, and a couple years ago I found a venue in the sport of golf to really explore that character. That character became Pryce Cahill.”And the character has turned real-life golf junkie in just two years. Wilson is a fixture around the game in Maui, playing casual rounds with Nelson and friends and visiting with players coming to the island for the PGA Tour’s annual stop. Major champions Keegan Bradley, Wyndham Clark and Collin Morikawa are among the pros who appear in Stick, and during production in Vancouver there was plenty of downtime for the actor to morph into the golfer, soaking up everything he could.“Vancouver is beautiful in the summer and we were filming on courses, so there wasn’t a lot of, ‘Let’s go back to the trailer and sit around,’ ” Wilson says. ‘It was, ‘Let’s go over to the 7th hole and play that par-3 again.’“Collin Morikawa was nice because he was there working and giving people advice, but the thing I remember is he asked me, ‘What’s the best club in your bag?’ And I was like, ‘Oh, I hadn’t really thought of that,’ ” Wilson continues. “But I answered decisively: ‘My putter.’ And I could tell he was like, ‘O.K., you commit to something and that’s the way to do it.’ ”Wilson is committed, all right. It’s gonna be a long show.