Yips!

The Musical

Synopsis

Golf and Romance. Both are in play on the Braeburn course this one fine day in June.

Chuck Nelson believes golf has lost its soul. And he’s doing something about it.

Chuck, a former amateur golf champ now living in his ’79 Lincoln, masquerades as a wader-wearing, water-ball-retrieving innocent moving from club to club. He relies on an evil trick-shot: the dexterous, triple-hit-chip (three hits of the ball on the same swing). Golfers with the “control attitude” seeing this shot are infected with the dreaded golfers’ flinch disease: “Yips!”

And successful Chuck Nelson is! The yips outbreak at the Braeburn club is epidemic and has made international news.

Only one victim, Robert Farley III, returns to fight his newly acquired yips using conventional methods, such as grip and mechanics. Marge McLean, the local golf pro, aids him in his effort. She also happens to be very much in love with Farley. But Farley is blinded to this fact by his singular, anal focus on his wounded golf game.

Savannah Jones, the pretty, divorced club-catering manager, is resistant about getting into a new relationship but finds herself at the point of really wanting to try again.

Especially after the Center for Disease Control sends the handsome Doctor Evan Parr to investigate the club problem.

Zeal, a young native of a remote Caribbean Island, is on his “vision quest.” His tribe needs a new shaman and he perceives that this “Yips Mon,” who he has found on the Internet, has “the spirit.” He is in America to find and bring him back.

This lighthearted musical addresses the questions: Can Chuck Nelson resist finding a home here at Braeburn and continue to bring the yips to all of golfdom? Can Zeal convince Chuck to come back with him? Can Marge get Farley to focus on anything but golf? Can Evan Parr quell the epidemic? Can Savannah open up to a new romantic relationship? Is Doctor Evan Parr that guy?