The time: 1931. The place: the golf links at Krewe Island off Savannah's
windswept Atlantic shore. The event: a mesmerizing thirty-six-hole match
in which Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen, legends of golf in their own
time, are joined by an unsung opponent, the troubled war hero Rannulph
Junah. The key to the outcome lies not with these titans of the game but
with Bagger Vance, a caddie who carries the secret of the Authentic
Swing. His mysterious powers guide the play and leave a lasting imprint,
not only on the lives he touches on that day so long ago, but also -
sixty years later - on the future of a brilliant but discouraged young
medical student.