After losing his wife, father, multiple girlfriends and his ability to achieve an erection, Casey Sweet finds himself drinking away the nights in the house he inherited, and suffering multiple panic attacks at a job he can’t stand, until he is forced to take a mental health sabbatical for the summer.

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Attempting to sell off his hoarding father’s possessions and reorganize his shattered life, he stumbles upon a bag of rare vintage golf clubs—a set the old man protected like gold and which holds clues to a destiny Casey never imagined.

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Soon Casey is golfing every day, drinking less and—with the help of his bossy therapist, The Diabolical Dr. Lisa—keeping his anxieties at bay. At the local course where his father was a respected member, Casey forges new bonds with an eclectic band of fellow golfers: Vince, a visionary entrepreneur in early retirement; Jamie, a combat veteran with a ferocious appetite for gambling and Fireball; and Coach Lowry, a once-promising PGA star turned club pro now stuck with a siren staff of beverage cart girls.

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But the most intriguing member of Twin Peaks is 22-year-old Josh Parker, a feral golf prodigy with a surfer mystique and dreams of qualifying for the PGA Tour. The others call him 80s Boy, for his retro style and immaculately restored 1987 Land Cruiser—a truck Casey recalls from a short-lived college romance with a sexual dynamo named Damaris, who also happens to be Josh’s mom.

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Increasingly convinced that Josh is his long-lost son, Casey embeds himself deeper into Josh’s life and attempts to rekindle things with Damaris—a tough single mother concealing serious health challenges of her own. But where is the line between romantic longing and responsible paternity? What role is Casey supposed to play in this later stage of their lives? 

 

As one transformative summer reaches its zenith and the stakes for Casey, Damaris and Josh extend far beyond the golf course, they are forced to examine past decisions and present fears, and lean on each other to survive a sports showdown as uplifting as it is unforgettable.

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In the tradition of golf comedy classics Caddyshack and Tin Cup, and literary midlife misadventures Sideways and This Book Will Save Your Life, The Turn is one man’s hilarious and heartwarming odyssey through loss, addiction, career implosion and relationship wreckage as he desperately fights to shoot par on the back nine of his life. It is at once a story of personal redemption, a blistering romance, and a testament to the healing powers of the most obsessive game ever invented.