The ending makes no sense (in more movies than one)

Not that much of this .. 'movie' .. makes much sense anyway, but these early 1980s movies really didn't seem to have congruency when it comes to their own story.

Just like 'The Cannonball Run (1981)', this movie does NOT conform to its own, established rules.

'Double or nothing' means that the one that suggests it gets nothing in any case, but if they lose, they have to pay double. The 'nothing' in it means that if they win, the other party doesn't have to pay anything - i.e. the loser pays nothing to them.

The 'individual time' rule in the other movie is forgotten at the end, when it suddenly becomes 'whoever gets to the goal first', so it changes COMPLETELY! It's supposed to be that everyone leaves at a slightly different time, and it's from THAT time that the 'winner' is calculated - it wouldn't matter who reaches the goal first, it wouldn't matter which order they reach the goal, the only thing that matters, according to the movie itself, is how much time each individual racer spent going from A to B.

It's amazing how a movie can establish a rule, then disregard it by the end completely.

Why would the obnoxious rich guy have to 'find his checkbook', when Dangerfield's character ALREADY suggested 'double or nothing', THUS FORFEITING any chances of winning any money? What the heck kind of sense does that make?

Just like 'The Cannonball Run', a rule is established earlier, then completely disregarded at the end.

The way this movie ends, Rodney's character is nothing but a violent criminal trying to rob a golf club owner (I think he was the owner, not sure), and if he's assaulted by his thugs, the security and police can and should get involved, and the trio should end up in jail.

Do moviemaking people not know what 'double or nothing' means?

In any case, this movie's ending makes 100% as much sense as the ending of 'The Cannonball Run' - which is exactly zero.

Some other points about this movie - it's like some kind of patchwork that consists of several gags, a really boring 'main storyline' that I can't believe anyone is actually interested in (Danny and the whole caddy and girlfriend stuff - he's not particularly charismatic, nothing interesting happens), and then is peppered throughout with completely odd, irrelevant, unrelated and nonsensical gags and bits.

Any scene with Rodney Dangerfield saves this travesty of a .. 'movie'? .. from being just a random mess of unrelated patches of gags and 'strange happenings that do not change anything', like the priest's death in golf course combined with a really boring 'caddy' story.

Who cares if the girl is pregnant or not, or whether Danny takes responsibility - show me more Rodney Dangerfield - at least he has charisma, wit and always something unexpcted and funny to say and do.

If you imagine this movie without him, it's really hard to even call this a movie, or to be entertained by most of it. Chevy's scenes are somewhat funny, but they go too far towards the 'random', and are bordeline just 'too strange to be entertaining', and anyone that doesn't know the Six Million Dollar Man sound effect is going to be at a loss, and so on.

I guess it's a 'funny experience', but you could cut all the unpleasant, gross, irrelevant, unrelated, boring and 'meh' stuff out, and lose nothing essential, but then you'd basically only have the Rodney Dangerfield scenes left.

It seems the makers of this movie were drugged out of their minds a lot of the time, and it shows. There's no coherence or congruence, it's like a super thin plot held together by weird, random gags and disgusting things (that chocolate bar has urine, chlorine, sweat, shoe bottom dirt and other very interesting bits in it, so it's far from being 'not disgusting', sitting on a car seat covered with someone's vomit is unnecessarily repulsive, and so on), plus a lot of sex and drug usage.

It's interesting how youtubers can't understand Chevy's humor about trying to make a stale drink seem like it's unopened and fresh, and they always think he's trying to 'drug her'. It just goes to prove how this movie's jokes don't really land very well, and how Chevy isn't at his best here (doesn't help that he throws away the liquid the woman actually drinks).

Oh well, thank goodness for Rodney, or this movie would've collapsed under its own weirdness, incoherence and boredom.