Oh misses his birdie putt on the first playoff hole, all Luke has to do is sink an 8-ft birdie putt to win.
#Seven days in utopia movie#
I saw it in the theater, my first visit to a movie house in 12 years! SPOILER: Luke gets into the Texas Open the next week, plays calmly and well, and a great approach to the last hole nets him an eagle 2 to tie with T.K. This is not a superb movie as superb movies go, but it is very pleasant and very watchable, and might even teach some audience members a new outlook on life and what is really important.
But it is all part of the plan to get young Luke to control his emotions and control his destiny. Bass fishing, throwing washers, oil painting. The basic premise is not unlike the 'Karate Kid' approach, the old master gets the student involved in a number of things seemingly unrelated to golf. But Johnny makes him a more important promise, spend 7 days with him in Utopia and he will find his golf game. Not all is bleak, as he also meets the pretty girl working at the local café, and aspiring to be a professional horse whisperer. Luke in a moment of inattention crashes through one of Johnny's fences to avoid hitting a bull, and soon Luke finds himself stuck in Utopia.
#Seven days in utopia pro#
Robert Duvall is Johnny Crawford who we gradually find out was a pro golfer many years ago, in the Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson era, but retreated to small town life some years ago, he lost both his career and his wife because of his drinking. So ready to give up golf, that his dad had pushed on him so forcefully, Luke winds up in Utopia, Texas, population 375 now that a lady just had twins. Lucas Black is young pro golfer Luke Chisholm who has a giant melt-down on the final hole when all he has to do is make a par to win. But it is what it is, and I think it is a good movie. Plus it has a prominent "faith" element, and some will be turned off by that aspect. You don't have to be a golfer, but I believe golfers will enjoy the movie more than others. My golfing friend Jay loaned me the book, which I enjoyed, and now similarly enjoyed this movie. Plus the theme is our human attempts to achieve our personal 'utopia' where everything is right. The book had a longer title, but it was essentially 'seven days in Utopia.' Clever in that the Texas town really exists and is called Utopia.
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