Year: 2009
Runtime: 95 mins
Language: English
Director: Drew Ann Rosenberg
Eric, a naturally talented but reckless college golfer, loses a high‑stakes bet to two cruel plastic surgeons. The loss strips him of his money, girlfriend, dignity and swing. Determined to reclaim his life, he and his best friend Tyler challenge the doctors to a decisive best‑ball golf match, hoping to win back everything and finally become the man he was meant to be.
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Eric Keller is a college student who often skips classes to hustle people at a nearby golf course, building his confidence on the green while two shadowy figures quietly watch him pull off small cons. One night, at a party with friends, he rubs shoulders with Tyler Hayden, a dropout trying to turn his golf clothing business, PAHR Fairway-Essentials, into a real venture, and with Mark Zbeitnefsky and Jason Jones, who seem more interested in chasing college girls than plotting career moves. The gathering also features Tyler’s sister, Mandy, who nearly shares a moment with Keller before Tyler steps in to guard the family image, revealing the tension between Keller’s lifestyle and the people around him. The party ends with a reckless decision: Keller agrees to have sex with a random student, a choice that Mark secretly records and then plays at Tyler’s PAHR shop, injuring Mandy’s trust and setting off a chain of consequences.
That shock leads to another confrontation, as Keller is drawn into the same scheme run by two anonymous men who are revealed to be plastic surgeons from NuBoobs—Dr. Carlton Piedmont and Dr. Hamilton Manning. They lure Keller with a high-stakes bet: if he wins, he pockets $50,000; if they win, Keller becomes a test subject for their upcoming projects. The plan is a trap—what started as a hustle becomes a coercive experiment—and Keller, shaken by the manipulation, tries to back out but is subdued with a taser and wakes up to a startling change: he has been given breast implants while he slept.
With the implants in place, Keller and Tyler Hayden press the surgeons to reverse the operation, but the surgeons demand a hard price: $50,000 within two weeks or they will mail Keller’s post-surgery photos to his friends and family. The pressure mounts as Tyler attempts to bring in a sponsor, Darius “Ice Pyk” Vernon, hoping to fund their PAHR venture, but a misstep by Mark Zbeitnefsky causes the meeting to go south, and the duo finds themselves locked out of Ice Pyk’s circle.
Determined to win back control, Keller returns to the golf course and uses the implants to his advantage, building a new rhythm and turning skilled rounds into a money-making streak while dodging the threat of the repo man—an aggressive collector pushing to reclaim Keller’s mustang, who finally gets his chance to catch up, only to crash the car when Mark manipulates the brake mechanism in a misguided repair attempt. Throughout this two-week scramble, Keller and Tyler gradually amass enough to meet the $50,000 target but fall just short, earning $42,000 and realizing the odds are stacked against them.
In a final bid to overturn the situation, Keller proposes one last rematch against the surgeons: if Keller and Tyler win, the operation will be reversed for free; if the surgeons win, Tyler will surrender PAHR to them. As the match unfolds, Mandy unexpectedly returns with Keller’s father, and the revelation that the surgeons mailed the improvised post-surgery pictures to Keller’s family adds a personal sting to the conflict. Mandy’s forgiveness helps Keller regain his footing, and his father’s encouragement convinces him to return to golf as a serious pursuit rather than a reckless hobby. The comeback becomes complete when Keller edges out the surgeons by a single stroke, even as the surgeons refuse to reverse the surgery, only to be pursued by Ice Pyk’s bodyguards, who then decide to partner with PAHR, much to Tyler’s relief.
The film closes with a frenetic flurry of commercials for PAHR Golf and NuBoobs, leaving Keller, Tyler, and their unlikely alliance with a renewed sense of purpose and a path forward on the greens.
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