Savannah usa and rannulph junnah matt damon is without doubt the finest golfer in the state with adele invergordon charlize theron the beautiful daughter of a wealthy landowner at his side it seems nothing can go wrong for young rannulph however the couples idyll is shattered when the great war begins and rannulph is drafted to fight in europe many years later adele seeks out her old flame to compete in a big golf tournament but rannulph is a broken man a slave to the bottle an