![]() "I wanted to leave it up to the imagination, but I wanted the story to go much deeper. "I left people hanging in the first book, this guy's putting for victory, the ball goes towards the hole and at that point I end it creatively without telling if it went in or not because at that point I'm really hoping that people get the message, because at that point it really doesn't matter whether the ball goes in or not," he said. "All along I knew at some point there needs to be a sequel."Ĭook said he knew that he would eventually have to address a question posed in the first book. "A director came along and read it and said this should be a movie and then all of a sudden Robert Duvall became involved, and interestingly this evolved into something huge," he explained. "I wanted to make that real clear in the book and so that was the real purpose of this book sequel."Ĭook, who has coached scores of top athletes for game day including PGA Tour winners, NBA World Champions and MVPs, Olympians, National Collegiate Champions, and many top executives at Fortune 500 companies, said the first book, Golf's Sacred Journey: Seven Days at the Links of Utopia, was really a look at what it takes to be great in one of the games of life – golf. "These performance journeys that we are on and these success callings that we are on, that include winning and losing, are really part of a bigger story," Cook told The Christian Post in a recent interview. Cook wants to make one thing perfectly clear – the movie "Seven Days in Utopia," based on his first book in the series, is quite different and not as spiritually deep as either book. Open: Golf's Sacred Journey 2, sports psychologist and author Dr. Many have picked up Seven Days in Utopia looking for the secret to a better game but instead found the secret to a meaningful life."Ĭook has written several other golf books, including Golf's Sacred Journey, the Sequel: 7 More Days in Utopia and The Psychology of Tournament Golf.At the outset of his newest book, Johnny's U.S. The book is published by Zondervan, whose website includes this description: "As the story unfolds, we-along with the pro-learn lessons about golf and life that we never expected to learn in places we never expected to learn them. Cook's book entitled Golf's Sacred Journey: Seven Days at the Links of Utopia. Writers: David Cook, Rob Levine, Matt Dean Russell and Sandra Thrift.Producers: Mark Mathis and Jason Berman.The Seven Days in Utopia principal cast and crew members are: Robert Duvall, one of his generation's finest actors, is the one thing about the movie that critics agreed upon: he's excellent. But it gets only 15% on Rotten Tomatoes (but 68% from viewers), and 37% on Metacritic. Seven Days in Utopia has a good 6.1 (out of 10) rating on IMDB. There is a major split among the three, major online aggregators of critic reaction. Lucas is forced to confront his past choices, and his plans for the future. The rancher imparts his profound way of looking at life to the young golfer, helping Lucas see things in a different light. But Johnny, it turns out, it just what Lucas needed. There he meets eccentric rancher Johnny Crawford, played by Robert Duvall. Unable to deal with the pressure, his confidence shattered, he retreats from the spotlight and winds up in tiny Utopia, Texas. He finds himself in contention at a tournament only to suffer a very public disaster. Lucas Black stars as Luke Chisolm, a young golfer with his sights set on PGA Tour success. Watch the trailer above.īuy the 'Seven Days in Utopia' DVD or Blu-ray The movie (and the book it is based on, as well as follow-on products) is a heavy mix of Christian theology with familiar sports-movie themes. Seven Days in Utopia is a movie released in 2011 that stars Robert Duvall and Lucas Black and is based on a book by golf mental coach and teambuilding speaker David Cook. ![]()
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