In the drought-stricken summer of 1971, a run-down golf course in the Upstate of South Carolina becomes a battleground between the man who is part-owner and manager of the course and the richest real estate developer in town. Sarge, the part-owner and manager has little leverage with which to fight off the attempt by the developer to turn the course into a subdivision. The story is interlaced with the antics and humor of working class men who find relief from their hard lives on a beaten-up golf course. It is balanced by the steely determination of a man who has little and wants to keep it, and a man who has much and wants more. In the end, is is the story of a small Southern town and the interaction that occurs within a well-defined class and religious system over the summer. Saving the Goat Farm is built around a golf course, but it is more about golf. It draws breath from the lives of the working class in a Southern town in the early 1970s. It is influenced by established religion and those who rebel against it. In the end, it is about how the things we seek are usually not found in the way we want them or without a price being paid.