Apple TV's Stick puts golf's comeback pressure back in the frame for season two

Apple TV's official first look for Stick season two makes the show's golf culture premise clear: this is a story about what happens when talent becomes expectation, and what a player does when the game asks for a second act. The clip, posted by Apple's official YouTube channel on September 17, introduces Rhea Seehorn as a new coach joining Pryce Cahill's team.

That addition matters because Stick has always used golf as a relationship language. Owen Wilson's Pryce is an over-the-hill former professional whose career ended early; Peter Dager's Santi is the 17-year-old phenom whose future is just beginning. Apple's official series page describes the show as a found-family story set inside golf, which gives the fairway stakes beyond a scorecard.

Apple's August 20 announcement supplies the season-two turn: Santi takes the next step toward professional golf, then discovers how quickly the game changes when talent becomes expectation. Pryce, pushed by former rival Clark Ross, bets on himself and pursues an improbable return with the goal of becoming the oldest golfer to win a major. Seehorn plays Amanda, the coach in that comeback effort, while Marc Maron's Mitts remains Pryce's caddie.

The November 4 release plan is also unusually specific. Apple says two episodes arrive that Wednesday, followed by one episode each week through December 30. The standalone Apple TV Press page repeats the date and identifies Stick as an Apple Studios sports comedy created by Jason Keller and led by Wilson.

That is a useful lane for a golf audience because the show's central question is familiar even when the setting is fictional: how much of a golfer's identity survives when the competitive window appears to have closed? Stick pairs that question with the pressure facing a young player before a professional career has even started. The sneak peek's coach reveal points to a season built around instruction, trust and the work required to turn potential into a repeatable game.

Golf stories often split into performance and personality, but Stick's setup keeps them together. A coach can change a player's process, while a caddie and a rival can change the player's sense of what is possible. That gives the season a recognisable golf vocabulary: practice, pressure, expectation and the uncomfortable gap between a player's reputation and current form. Those are the details that make a fictional golf story useful to readers who know the sport's social side as well as its mechanics.

The original Apple TV clip is available on the service as a native Season 2 Sneak Peek, alongside the YouTube upload. Readers can use it as a first look at the new team without treating a promotional clip as a substitute for a full episode or an independent review.

For golfers, the reason to watch is the same reason the premise travels beyond television: golf is an individual sport that still depends on teachers, caddies, rivals and family. Stick's second season sets those relationships against two different forms of pressure — a prodigy's first step toward the tour and an older player's attempt to find out whether his best golf is behind him.