As soon as intimidated by golf, Owen Wilson is now able to hit the hyperlinks around the globe after studying play the game for his new Apple TV+ sequence, Stick. 

With famend golf programs throughout the globe to select from, like St Andrews Hyperlinks, Pebble Seashore, and the Fairmont Banff Springs, there are many locations for Wilson to go to—and the Hollywood star has already added some to his checklist.

“There’s one in Eire known as Adare Manor that I visited earlier than I performed golf, and it was only a lovely place,” Wilson informed Journey + Leisure in a current interview. “I do know that that is the place they will do the Ryder Cup in a number of years, so I wish to return there and play.”

Along with Adare Manor, the host of the 2027 Ryder Cup, there’s one other course—residence to the long-lasting Masters golf event—that Wilson wish to verify off his checklist. “I might like to play, clearly, Augusta [National Golf Club], that is possibly essentially the most well-known on the earth,” he mentioned.

Not like pickleball and padel—actions Wilson picked up whereas touring and introduced residence with him—golf was extra of a problem for the actor to be taught forward of his function in Stick. He performs a former golf professional named Pryce Cahill who discovers a teenage golf prodigy within the Apple TV+ sequence, which additionally stars Peter Dager, Marc Maron, Mariana Treviño, Lilli Kay, and Judy Greer.

“I used to be just a little bit intimidated by golf as a result of my dad was an excellent golfer. I had by no means appeared to have the ability to decide it up. And I simply thought, ‘Okay, that is one sport I am simply not going to have the ability to do,’” Wilson admitted. “So when [series creator] Jason Keller first form of spoke to me, I believe that form of anxiousness made me nervous about, you understand, may I form of do it in a means that may really feel good? And Jason has a pleasant high quality of reassurance and simply obtained me to assume, ‘Yeah. Okay, you are able to do this.’”

“And I began taking some classes, after which I found that whoa it is not this, you understand, mysterious factor. It can yield to follow,” he continued. “That is been the nice factor for me about engaged on this, is studying one thing new.”

Pitt Meadows Golf Membership in British Columbia, Canada, was one of many golf programs the place Stick was shot, along with different “spectacular programs” in Vancouver. Stick creator and govt producer Jason Keller informed T+L, “We had the nice fortune of having the ability to spend a while on some actually nice programs up there. And so they look lovely, and it was enjoyable. I imply it was tough taking pictures on a golf course, particularly with Owen, as a result of between takes, he would typically seize a golf cart and go work on his chipping elsewhere. And so typically it necessitated me having to go and discover him to carry him again to shoot the present.”

“What I am listening to you say is that ‘Owen was a workaholic. Even once we have been taking a break, this man could be working,’” Wilson interjected. Keller identified that, in that means, Wilson was “actually form of a way actor” throughout this shoot. 

“I used to be. For the primary time in my profession, I made a decision, like, let’s examine what all this methodology performing is about,” Wilson mentioned with fun.

Whereas the golf comedy debuted on June 4, the actor plans to stay with the game. “I am on the again 9 in life, and I see this carrying me proper to the nineteenth gap,” Wilson mentioned. Actually, Wilson additionally revealed that he just lately traveled to Australia, the place he performed on a “lovely golf course.” “That is an ideal factor to do if you’re touring,” Wilson mentioned, “As a result of there’s a variety of lovely golf programs around the globe.”