Daddy Caddy

Daddy Caddy is a warm, funny British comedy-drama family sporting movie that plays off a burgeoning father-daughter relationship against an old clan feud set in the Scottish Highlands.
NOTE: This synopsis contains spoilers!

The films hero, Doug Pithy, a tireless travelling baseball salesman for Madden Enterprises, learns of his father's death whilst trying to sell Chinese baseballs back to the Chinese, an illegal activity that sits badly with Doug. That, combined with being fired pushes Doug over the edge enough that his moral sensibility is now flawed. Homeless due to Doug's debts run up whilst abroad, the family travels to Scotland to sell Doug's father's home, only to discover that his father has been dead ten years. Doug was not told for fear he would not handle the news well because of his underlying condition; as a young boy, Doug was hit by a golf ball on the head and he now sports a titanium casing and a large, walnut sized bump, and since then Doug denies his Scottish inheritance by believing he is actually American - the recognised condition of Aphasia. For Doug, returning to Scotland represents pure hell.

Sara, Doug's wife, sets about finding a job in the remote Scottish coastal town of Inchrae where the average age is sixty plus. Doug, discovers his daughters aversion to sport puts pay to his idea of finally having a vacation after years of working away from his family. Doug, desperate to pack his daughter Paige off for the summer, tries out at the local golf course, the only thing available but soon discovers Paige is useless at sport. His newly found lack of sensibility and desperation as a father wanting his daughter to be good at something, means he does something he has never done before; he cheats by knocking Paige's golf ball in the hole enabling her to win, something which for Paige is unheard of. Now starts a series of lies and deceit as Doug, as his daughter's caddy, cheats to enable Paige to win at golf.

News of their success reaches the neighbouring Keep, recently modernised into a luxury hotel by Duke and his brother Frank of Madden Enterprises. Duke, irked by his wifes' duplicity when he discovers he is not the father of his African-American daughter Baby, is further angered by the Town and Golf Courses refusal to sell up to him so he can knock it all down and have his sea-view. Duke sends Frank to visit Mac Maclean, the Golf Course owner and his father's enemy, with his ultimatum, find the original, missing Title to the lands which proves their ownership, or he will go ahead and demolish it all in six weeks time using his much later dated Title which claims he has jurisdiction over said land. Mac turns Frank away, safe in the knowledge that only children may enter, only to have Frank return with his toddler niece, Baby, in a front-baby carrier and enter the summer golf competitions.

Doug battles his nemesis and past employer as his daughter Paige plays against Baby around the golf course. Doug, realising the odds are stacked against him, resorts to using custom made remote control golf balls to thwart Frank and Baby and enhance Paige's score. Resulting in Paige being spotted by County Golf and raising the stakes for Duke as now the golf course is under the spot light. Doug and Paige's relationship grows with their false success.

Doug, under Mac's guidance learns to re-visit his shielded childhood memories and discovers his fathers hatred of golf was in fact directed at the Madden's, not the vulnerable, injured young boy that was Doug all those years ago. Emboldened by these recent discoveries, Doug realises that by cheating for Paige, he is re-enacting years of fear and decides to stop cheating, but before he can own up to Paige, Doug doubts Sara's intentions as her work at the Keep means she spends time with Duke. And then suddenly, Mac dies and Paige discovers the reason she is doing well at golf is a lie.

Doug and Paige must dig deep to stand up to Duke and Frank's threats to demolish their home and everything they have grown to love, by taking Frank and Baby on in a golf-off tournament that pushes everyone to their limits. Can Paige forgive her father? Can Doug separate truth from lies and finally vanquish the age-old evil that has eaten away at two families for years and save the coastal village, the golf course, his home and the love of his family from being destroyed?