2019’s Round Of Your Life tells the story of the Collins family.

Carl Collins (Boo Arnold) is a retired PGA golfer who is still considered to be one of the best to ever play the game.  He’s put a lot of pressure on his two sons to follow in his footsteps.  Tucker (Tim Ogletree), who likes to tell jokes and doesn’t always follow the best golf course etiquette, has just started on the PGA tour.  Meanwhile, 15 year-old Taylor (Evan Hara) would rather play video games than stick with all of the hard work needed to become a golf pro.

When Taylor fails to make the Varsity Golf Team at his high school, an angry Carl goes for a late night drive.  Unfortunately, his car is hit by another car, this one being driven by a teenage girl who was too busy texting to pay attention to the road.  Carl ends up in a coma.  And Taylor ends up determined to join the golf team and make his father proud.

Coach Wilson (Richard T. Jones) is skeptical about giving Taylor a second chance to play for the school.  But then Wilson sees Taylor playing a round with his best player, Connor (Blair Jackson, who gives the film’s best performance).  Realizing that Taylor actually is a good golfer, Wilson allows him to join the junior varsity team.  When one of the varsity players is caught cheating, Taylor moves up to varsity.  He also starts a tentative relationship with Bailey (Alexandria DeBerry), even though Connor considers Bailey to be his girlfriend.

Tucker, meanwhile, starts going out with Minka (Katie Leclerc), a nurse at the hospital.  A surprisingly large amount of screentime is devoted to Tucker and Minka’s romance, despite the fact that there’s not really much of a story there.  Both Tucker and Minka are single and they start dating.  One gets the feeling that the main reason this storyline was given such prominence in the film is because the actor playing Tucker also wrote the film.

This is a faith-based film, so there’s naturally a lot of emphasis on everyone praying for Carl’s recovery.  This is the type of film where people discuss attending a Fellowship of Christian Athletes meeting without a hint of irony.  This is also the rare high school film where no one ever curses, there’s no drinking to be found, and all of the relationships are relatively chaste.  Whether or not the viewer finds this to be realistic would depend on what type of high school they went to.  My high school experience was a bit different.

When the film started, I had a problem with the amount of pressure that Carl put on his sons to follow in his footsteps.  That was especially true in the case of Taylor, who seemed to be a good kid who just happened to be a bit more laid back than either his father or his brother.  Though it’s not made apparent until the film is nearly over, Round Of Your Life did share my concerns.  Visually, Round of Your Life is fairly bland and the twist at the end won’t be a huge shock to anyone who has ever seen one of these films before.  But there is a likable earnestness to this movie.  And, needless to say, the golf courses were lovely.