It tells the story of a caddie , vying for a caddie scholarship, who becomes involved in a feud on the links between one of the country club's founders and a nouveau riche guest.
A subplot involves a greenskeeper who uses extreme methods against an elusive gopher. Caddyshack was the directorial debut of Ramis and the film boosted the career of Dangerfield, who was then known primarily as a stand-up comedian. The film has a cult following and was described by ESPN as "perhaps the funniest sports movie ever made". A sequel titled Caddyshack II followed, although only Chase reprised his role; it was panned by critics and a box-office bomb.
High school student Danny Noonan is anxious about his future, while he hopes to go to college to avoid being stuck in a menial job with no prospects, he is struggling to financially cover tuition. Danny works as a caddie at the exclusive Bushwood country club catering to affluent clientele. Though he usually caddies for Ty Webb, a talented golfer and the free-spirited playboy son of the club's co-founder, Danny volunteers to caddie for the arrogant Judge Elihu Smails, the club's other co-founder and director of the caddie college scholarship program.
Meanwhile, mentally unstable greenskeeper Carl Spackler is tasked with killing a destructive gopher driven onto the course by work on the adjacent property development owned by Al Czervik. The fiery and eccentric nouveau riche Czervik attends the club as a guest, but his antics quickly annoy Smails. After one encounter, Smails angrily throws his putter , injuring an elderly guest. Danny takes the blame for the incident to earn respect from Smails.
Danny becomes attracted to Smails's promiscuous niece Lacey Underall who is visiting for the summer; she and Webb begin a brief affair. Later, Danny wins the Caddie Day golf tournament, earning him an invitation from Smails to attend the christening ceremony for his boat at the nearby Rolling Lakes Yacht Club. There, Czervik disrupts the ceremony and accidentally destroys the boat, while Lacey seduces Danny and the pair go to Smails' house to have sex.
