“Stick,” premiering Wednesday on Apple TV+, is a sweet, lovely, funny show — a sports story, a road movie, a coming-of-age story and briefly a caper film. Here and there it asks you to credit something a little beyond belief, without insulting the show’s emotional intelligence. Golf is the hook on which the story hangs, but it’s not really about golf, or even winning at it, but about anger and joy, being lost and found, wrecked and repaired, listening and learning, which applies in different degrees to each of the principal characters; everybody hurts.

If your problem with “Ted Lasso,” a series whose name surely came up as “Stick” was making its way to the screen, is that it wasn’t sufficiently realistic or was too sentimental, this show is probably not for you. I don’t have that proble

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