Stick season 2 sends Owen Wilson after a U.S. Open record that has stood since 1990

Apple TV has released the trailer for the second season of Stick, and it gives Owen Wilson's Pryce Cahill a goal with a real number attached. Urged on by his old rival Clark Ross (Timothy Olyphant), Pryce launches a comeback in the hope of becoming the oldest golfer ever to win the U.S. Open.

That record is not a vague benchmark. It belongs to Hale Irwin, who won the U.S. Open in 1990 at 45 years and 15 days. It has stood for 36 years.

What the record actually says

• Oldest U.S. Open champion: Hale Irwin, 1990, aged 45 years and 15 days.
• Oldest player to make the cut: Sam Snead, in 1973, at 61.
• Pryce Cahill: an "over-the-hill" former pro, in Deadline's description, whose career was derailed 20 years ago.

For Pryce, both numbers matter. Making the weekend is something a 61-year-old has done. Winning is something nobody older than 45 has done. The show is betting its season on the second.

What season 2 is about

In the first season, Pryce, his marriage to Amber Lynn (Judy Greer) over and fired from his job at an Indiana sporting goods store, staked his future on Santi (Peter Dager), a troubled 17-year-old golf phenom. In season 2, Santi takes the next step toward a professional career, but his talent stops being a surprise and becomes the baseline expectation, which changes the game for him.

As Santi chases his dream, Pryce starts wondering what might still be possible for himself. The trailer shows him knocking on Clark's door and finding the ambitious former player in under-eye masks, then agreeing to his proposition. With his caddie Mitts (Marc Maron) beside him, he sets out to prove that he really was as good as everyone said.

The new coach is Rhea Seehorn, the Emmy and Golden Globe winner from Pluribus. She plays Amanda, "the swing doctor" in Clark's words, brought in to fix Pryce's game. In the trailer she snort-laughs at first, assuming they are joking. Noah Kahan's "Northern Attitude" plays near the end.

Who is in it

• Returning: Owen Wilson, Peter Dager, Marc Maron, Mariana Treviño, Lilli Kay, Judy Greer and Timothy Olyphant.
• New: Rhea Seehorn, plus SNL alum John Higgins, Billy Zane, Rex Linn, Sasha Alexander and Missi Pyle.
• Golf world: broadcasters Jim Nantz and Trevor Immelman return as guests, with golf enthusiasts Matt Scharff and Dan Rapaport.
• Behind the camera: Jason Keller is creator and showrunner. Executive producers include Wilson, Ben Silverman of Propagate Content and Guymon Casady of Entertainment 360. Apple Studios produces.

Olyphant's place on the "returning" list has changed in status. In season 1 he joined in a guest role; on February 17, 2026, he and Greer were promoted to series regulars, according to Wikipedia. The rival who now pushes Pryce toward the comeback started as a guest.

The cast has changed before. Greer was not part of the original line-up: in August 2024, during the making of season 1, she joined the show, replacing Jamie Neumann, who exited for unknown reasons. Season 2 adds more than it replaces. Billy Zane and John Higgins were announced in recurring roles in March 2026.

The show also leans on the real sport. In season 1, professional golfers Max Homa, Brad Dalke and Collin Morikawa appeared as themselves at the fictional ReadySafe Invitational, according to Wikipedia. A U.S. Open storyline puts Pryce in pursuit of a real record held by a real player.

The schedule

Stick returns on Wednesday, November 4, with two episodes, then one a week until December 30. That works out to ten episodes, the same as season 1.

• Season 1: ten episodes, June 4 to July 23, 2025, on Apple TV+.
• Renewal: July 23, 2025, the day of the season 1 finale.
• Reviews: 82% on Rotten Tomatoes from 61 critics and 62 on Metacritic from 27, "generally favorable". The critics' consensus credited Wilson's laconic charm with carrying a show that "putts predictably".
• Origins: season 1 was filmed in Vancouver from May 29, 2024, under the working title "Rambler & the Birdie Machine", with Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris directing.

Deadline pitches the new season at viewers mourning the end of Ted Lasso's fourth season, another Apple sports comedy.

What is still unknown

• Pryce's age. The show has not tied the comeback to a specific number, and that number decides how far past Irwin's record he would be.
• Whether the U.S. Open appears by name on screen, and how much of the season reaches the tournament itself.
• A third season. Season 1 was renewed on its finale day. Nothing has been said about season 3.

Stick's first season sold Pryce as a man whose career ended 20 years ago. Its second sends him after a record that has held since 1990, longer than his own exile from the sport.