In Apple TV+ ’s new sports dramedy Stick Peter Dager portrays young golf prodigy Santiago “Santi” Wheeler, who gets recruited to take a swing at becoming a pro golfer by Owen Wilson ’s Pryce Cahill, who was himself, once, a pro golfer.

Clashing over their difference in ages and ideas of how to be a good golfer, with Santi sometimes foregoing Pryce’s advise to be a hotshot and take big swings, Dager traced the underlying appreciation the two have for each other — much like a father and son dynamic — despite the ups and downs of their relationship.

“Santi and Pryce, they’re butting heads so much in the beginning because they both have a lot of good reasons to not want to join forces,” Peter Dager told Deadline ahead of the launch of the series — which premiered with the first thr

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