Owen Wilson's Apple TV+ Show gets golf completely wrong.

A scene from the first season of stockThe Comedy series of Apple TV+in the world of the golf is always in my craw. At the end of the seventh episode, Owen Wilson's heated former PGA Tour -Pro character with Santi (Peter Dager) is located on a crossroads, the protégé, which he confuses in the next great star of sport. Santi tells Wilson's character Pryce that he no longer wants to play with amateur tournaments. Then what does he judge what he is aiming for? Santi says: “I'm talking about the show.”

As in the PGA tour. Santi wants to compete against the best players in the world. In the newly released ninth episode of the “Showtime” series, the washed -out former professional and the upward -giving amateur find a way to bring the latter into a professional tournament. There is only one problem with this whole action: I am not sure whether someone in the history of the Golf has referred to the PGA tour as “the show”. The Major League baseball is generally referred to as the “The Show”, and the nickname is so well known that that is The show is even the name of the most popular baseball video game. But as someone who visits and covered many professional golf tournaments who plays Golf almost every week and who asked the question in the golf media, I can certainly say that at no point in the long history of the PGA tour “The Show” was ever a nickname that described the top golf tour. Even within the boundaries of a fictional TV show, this is certainly not how one of the best amateur players in the world would describe the circuit that he would like to join.

This unplausibility shows the main problem stockwhich was premiered in June for lukewarm-to-positive reviews. The series Has to do several things: Wilson has a role with a lot of heart playing and avenue demons from golf and paternity while he helps Santi to connect with the game again after the young player's manipulative father ruined it for him. It has a kind of funny buddy cop routine between Pryce's former Caddy, “Micht” (Marc Maron, back from podcasting for his first television role in a little) and Santi's mother, Elena (Mariana Treviño). It has a structured teenage romance between Santi and his caddy/friend/connection, Zero (Lilli Kay).

So it's disappointing that stock If the most important tests that every show or a film about sport needs to be: it has to dramatize sport to convince it for everyone, without messing up so many basic details that it feels cheap for people who follow sport. Under no circumstances does this mean that a sports show must be realistic To be good, something that Apple TV+ has already learned with its hit series Ted LassoA very impossible story of an American college football coach who brings his talents to English football. Sports art just has to do enough to live in the world in which she lives – and there is there stockSloppiness reduces a much better show.

Showrunner Jason Keller Do not refer in the nuts and golf screws because most people have the good sense (which I lack) not to be interested in the finer points of the wedge game and the delay. Some of us Perhaps you have enjoyed a detailed discussion about why Santi covered his Midirons or tried to control his low point, but if you are one of the almost 100 percent of people who don't care much about Golf, her eyes would glaze. You would also prepare yourself to the Barracuda championship on the golf channel as quickly as you.

So the show needs some fun and even strenuous freedom. PRYCE and CONTENT lead a recurring hustle and bustle with the guests with spiked bars of the gloves in Wetten that Pryce does not bring a putt into a drinking glass. Santi, who shows his skills, hits a 250-yard shot that has a tiny sign, a level of control that even Tiger Woods could not use consistency in its flowering period. stock Also imagines a much more integrative world with a high -ranking golf than actually exists. Zero, a restaurant server that becomes Santis Caddy, uses her/she and her/her pronouns and has extensive conversations with Santi about gender and sexuality. Nobody says anything that means or moves to exclude zero from sport. I am afraid that the reception would be very different in the actual golf at a high level, which drips with cultural conservatism. (The PGA tour doesn't even post appreciates for the TOKEN Pride Month, and the only non -cisgender player on the PGA tour or on the LPGA tour in recent years with rampant transthobia and has been banned from the competition.)

It's great stock Do not let that slow down. The low -hanging description that the series is Ted Lasso Because Golf is not entirely wrong. Where the two shows differ in the more basic presentation of the sports that serve as their respective scenes. Ted Lasso Is a hyperdailed love letter in English football (fine, football), which should look like a show that looks around a small, underdog club: the facilities are a bit harmful. The local pub is the connection of the club's supporting group. The football references are not overly technical, but they have had some meat behind them, because the entire premise of the show is that a Redneck has to learn something about football. Exploration of shabby possession and investors through the show was almost too in the nose for some fans.

stock Makes only too many mistakes in this area so that the show exhausts its potential. The references to “The Show”, a nickname that does not exist in the Golf, are just an example in a water risk that is full of it. In an early episode, Pryce Santi warns not to play too aggressively with his approach on a hole, because the green is guarded by a difficult bunker who is known by the locals as “The Copacabana”, which Pryce warns how a good thing sounds, but not. This is a decent little attempt from stock In order to get involved in a real part of the golf culture – that many courses have intimidating design features that accept their own tradition and can be scary for players who have not yet seen before. (The US Open was played on a course with a bunker called “Big Mund”.)) If Santi actually hits a shot in this bunker, we see that this sand trap should not be so intimidating. The player doesn't have to hit a high lip, and there are tons of green between sand and hole. A player like Santi would do almost every time from this glorified dirt stain.

The show tries to channel more parts of sports culture in a way that simply doesn't click quite. At an amateur tournament Santi there are two types that radiate a certain barstool sports and scream “potato puree” after a player hit his shot. Some PGA tour events crawl with this type of guy, but not -Descript -amateur tournaments. In addition, one man about potatoes only writes a beat to sound how a real Golf Bozo would scream. “I hate golfbros,” says Elena as an answer. In fact, but they weren't here. The show is also repeatedly fighting with the pronunciation of a famous golf course name (Muirfield is “Sea field”, not “Morryfeld”) and sprinkles a number of phrase applications that are far enough that an actual golffan would notice. In stockA chip shot is more “done” than “hit” or even “played”, as someone would say in real life. A “PGA tournament” is referred to when the character clearly talks about the PGA tourA separate line committee. (Most of the country makes this mistake, but Elite golfer, who strive for a career in sports.) Santi describes an event as “the first tour I've ever seen” and not as the first tournament. These are all tiny things, but there are So many Of them, and as Arnold Palmer said – and Wilson's character reminds us a few times – Golf is a centimeter game.

The problem with stock If this is not that Santi hits unrealistic shots or that the sound effect of his club that beats the ball is a little excited. Happy Gilmore Is one of the most pleasant sports films ever made and the golf it represents is deliberately ridiculous. (Just look at it.) But this film was nailed the environment around Golf that made it possible to play Adam Sandler to successfully play a chaos agent under a tour of heterosexual men. (Remember when the stuffy tour professionals send him to “The Ninth Green at 9” to step from Sprinkler?) stockagainst it, Use Golf as a vehicle to move along the property points about growth, grief and parenthood, but the volume of avoidable mistakes asks the fair question of why it had to be a golf show at all. Sometimes it's just a kind; The fourth episode of the series, one of its best, does not even come close to a golf course and is all the better.

Non-golfer, maybe there is still something for you. If I didn't really like Golf and took care of his advantages and disadvantages, I would have liked it stock more. Apart from botched references to the wall carpet of sport, the show builds up a strong relationship on the screen between Wilson's character and his young charges, which fill a vacuum that remains on one side from a absent father and on the other by the death of a child. And to be fair, the fraud that compiled the ensemble in Episode 8 is a turmoil to bring Santi to a PGA tour event. stock Take some great swings and enough of them combine to make something decent. The show only misses too many tap-ins to really be Great.