This movie was great! It really had everything. It was funny, it had romance, it had action and sports, it had suspense, and had a great message. No matter what you do in life it is important, and God is always there.

this film obviously was written by a screenplay writer who really knows the golf, one of the sports heavily commercialized by necessary must-have sponsorship. the screenplay writer had subtly purify the commercial odor and turned it into a philosophy of life.what a great casting job! every role was nicely picked for the right actor to play it. r.d. simply did another great job in this movie. he delivered those great words so naturally like originating from his heart. the young actor who played that conflicting young golfer was pretty awesome too. that young actress was also such a nice cast, pure, slender, kind and gentle, a typical American country girl in our dream.this is a great film, a film about 99.99% without any commercial purpose but was ruined in the last 0.01% when the movie ended with a stupid arrangement by asking viewers an inevitable question: 'did he make the putt?" and ask you to visit a website URL: www.didhemaketheputt.com. when you typed and clicked the enter, it brought you to a 100% commercial site, selling lot of bi-products of this movie. it not only ruined my good impression cast by this movie, it actually made me sneer uncontrollably. well, after all, golf movies are still carrying lot of commercial-wise purposes.

This was seriously one of the worst movies I have ever seen and I have seen my share of bad movies. I was excited to see it because I love golf. I had no idea it was loaded with religious propaganda. I of course, fast forwarded it through all the bible and church stuff. The love story was soooooo boring. zzzzzzzzzzzz.... It was the Mr. Miyagi on golf kind of movie and the way it was delivered was that the teacher is so brilliant because he thinks about golf outside the box. For example, he gets the main character to fly a plane because flying a plane and golf are like the same thing. Wait. What!? Okayyyyy.... Oh yeah, and there is no ending but I guess it works out better because I can only imagine how badly he would have written it so leaving it blank is probably better.I never write reviews for movies but this movie was seriously so bad I had to. A 10 year old could have put together a better plot for this movie.EPIC FAIL!

This movie was in the same genre as 'The karate Kid' and countless other movies..disgruntled teen meets Yoda type character and discovers how golf/boxing/karate is a metaphor for buddhism/Christianity.Golf is like fly fishing, you should picture your shots before you take them, bury your bad feelings...it was like a smörgåsbord of clichés.There is always a girl involved and an anti hero - and I think you can guess the plot of the movie from that - and it does not disappoint. I was hoping that it would at least have an original ending - however it could not even come up with one! You had to come up with one yourself!At the end of the movie I felt I had been bombarded with Christian propaganda, product placement (there was Callaway on everything! The type of driver was even mentioned on the commentary in the closing scene) and tourism to Texas.Bland writing, directing, editing and acting - a perfect storm of blandness.