For a whole season, Pryce Cahill bet his future on someone else’s swing. Now he is putting it on his own. Stick, the Apple TV golf comedy created by Jason Keller and starring Owen Wilson, returns for a second season in which the coach becomes the player, chasing a mark that in real life belongs to Phil Mickelson: the oldest golfer ever to win a major.

The first season introduced Pryce as an over-the-hill former pro whose career was derailed early by an on-course meltdown. After his marriage collapsed and he was fired from his job at an Indiana sporting goods store, he hedged everything on Santi, a troubled teenage phenom played by Peter Dager. The result was a single-camera sports comedy built around a found family: Pryce, his caddie Mitts, played by Marc Maron, Elena, played by Mariana Treviño, and Zero, played by Lilli Kay, on the road in Mitts’ RV with a qualifier and the U.S. Amateur Championship ahead of them.

The coach goes back to the first tee

Apple’s synopsis splits the second season into two tracks. Santi “takes the next step in his pursuit of professional golf, only to discover how quickly the game changes when talent becomes expectation.” Pryce, meanwhile, starts to wonder what might still be possible for him. Urged on by Clark Ross, his former rival, played by Timothy Olyphant, he “does something nobody expects: he bets on himself”, launching what Apple calls “an improbable comeback in hopes of becoming the oldest golfer ever to win a major.”

That is a real change of structure. The first season worked because Pryce’s ambitions were safely displaced onto a teenager: he could be wise about a talent that was not his to waste. A comeback removes that distance. According to the synopsis, the road back “proves far harder than he imagined”, and the closer Pryce gets to the golfer he once was, “the more he is forced to confront why he never fulfilled the promise everyone once saw in him.” The premise suggests a season less interested in whether he can still hit the ball than in why he stopped.

Santi’s track is the mirror image. A prodigy who has been told he is special now has to live with being expected to win. Apple’s phrase for it, talent becoming expectation, is the oldest pressure in junior golf, and it lands on the character at the moment his mentor stops looking at him and starts looking at his own scorecard.

A record with a real holder

The target Apple gives Pryce is not invented golf lore. The oldest major champion in men’s golf is Phil Mickelson, who won the PGA Championship on the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island in 2021 at the age of 50. He took the record from Julius Boros, who won the same championship in 1968 at 48. Before them, Jack Nicklaus and Tom Morris Sr. had both won majors at 46.

That gives the comedy an unusually specific bar. Apple describes Pryce as a player whose career was derailed prematurely 20 years ago; the record he is chasing was set by a player who never really left the tour. The distance between those two careers is where the premise places the season’s comedy and its stakes. A man who stepped away from the game is trying to beat the one benchmark built by someone who never did.

It also fits the way Stick has always treated golf. The first season brought in tour players Collin Morikawa, Keegan Bradley, Max Homa and Wyndham Clark for guest appearances, along with broadcasters Jim Nantz and Trevor Immelman. Nantz and Immelman return as guests in the second season, alongside Good Good’s Matt Scharff and golf enthusiast Dan Rapaport. For a story about a man trying to win a major, the voices that call the real ones on television are more than set dressing. They are the closest thing the show has to an official verdict.

Rhea Seehorn, Billy Zane and a bigger ensemble

The most visible addition is Rhea Seehorn, the Emmy nominee and Golden Globe winner known for Better Call Saul and Pluribus, who joins in a supporting role as Amanda, described by Apple as Pryce’s “brilliant new coach”. With Mitts still at his side as his “trusted caddie”, Pryce now has the support structure he once built for Santi. The casting points to the season’s central reversal: the man who gave instructions is now the one taking them.

Season two also welcomes John Higgins, Billy Zane, Rex Linn, Sasha Alexander and Missi Pyle. The returning ensemble includes Dager, Maron, Treviño, Kay, Judy Greer and Olyphant, whose Clark Ross moves from old rival to the person who pushes Pryce back into competition. Wilson remains the lead and an executive producer, and Keller stays on as showrunner. The series comes from Apple Studios, with Ben Silverman of Propagate Content and Guymon Casady of Entertainment 360 among the executive producers.

Why Apple ordered a second round

Apple renewed Stick in July 2025, on the day it released the first-season finale. Keller said at the time that he was “inspired and humbled by the audience reaction”, and added that the order would “provide me with an undeniable excuse to play even more golf.” Matt Cherniss, Apple’s head of programming, said there was “plenty more in the bag for fans of the series”. Wilson put it more simply: “It’s really nice to see the show connecting with people and to know that we get a chance to continue the story!”

The show sits in a lane Apple knows well. Ted Lasso built a hit out of a coach, a team and a lot of stubborn optimism; Stick moves the found-family formula into a solitary sport, where there is no squad to hide in and every bad round has one name on it. The older ancestor is Tin Cup, the 1996 film about a driving-range pro who gambles everything on one big championship. Stick’s second season borrows that gamble and raises the stakes to a record held by a single player.

The synopsis ends on what Pryce is really trying to prove: “that maybe he really was as good as everyone always said he was.” A major would settle the question for the golf world. Whether a trophy can settle it for a man who spent two decades away from the game is the part no scorecard answers.

Stick season 2: release date, episodes and cast

When does Stick season 2 premiere? Apple TV launches the second season on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, with two episodes, followed by one episode weekly until the finale on December 30, 2026.

How many episodes are there? Ten, the same count as the first season.

Who is in the cast? Owen Wilson, Peter Dager, Marc Maron, Mariana Treviño, Lilli Kay, Judy Greer and Timothy Olyphant return. Rhea Seehorn joins as Amanda, with John Higgins, Billy Zane, Rex Linn, Sasha Alexander and Missi Pyle also new to the series.

Is Stick based on a true story? No. It is a fictional comedy created by Jason Keller, although real golfers and broadcasters have appeared in guest roles.

Where can I watch it? Stick is an Apple TV original, available on the Apple TV app in over 100 countries and regions, where the first season is also streaming.