If you haven’t seen Happy Gilmore 2, I highly recommend it. You can access it on Netflix. 

It took almost 30 years to do the sequel of Happy Gilmore, which starred Adam Sandler and became a cult film, certainly popular among golfers because of the irreverence of the lead character swinging a hockey stick like a driver and putting with it. 

Happy Gilmore 2 features Sandler reprising his role and the producers basically recruited many golfers from the PGA Tour, LIV Golf, LPGA Tour and several retired PGA Tour players to provide some comic relief. 

Probably the funniest are Scottie Scheffler (Titleist Pro V1), which is surprising because he rarely shows any emotion when he plays, but clearly there’s another side to him. Will Zalatoris (Titleist Pro V1x) is a hoot, too. Former PGA Tour player John Daly has a meaty role as Happy’s tenant living in his garage and, essentially, plays himself. 

But more on them later.  

If you haven’t seen the original, it’s basically about a down-and-out hockey player who dreamed of playing professionally but never had the talent and is so frustrated he has anger issues. 

When a golf teaching pro notices Happy can drive a ball 400 yards by running up to the tee and swinging his hockey stick, he wants to coach him. Happy, who wears a Boston Bruins’ jersey and work boots, has no interest in pursuing golf as a career. Basically he thinks it’s for sissies and isn’t fond of the clothing they wear. He changes his mind when his grandmother has her house repossessed and he finds out he can make money in pro tournaments. He ends up buying the house back when he beats Shooter McGavin to win the Tour Championship and the gold jacket (a nod to the Masters green jacket). 

In the sequel, Happy is once again down on his luck, an alcoholic working a menial job at a supermarket after accidentally killing his wife with an errant drive. He is encouraged to take up the sport again to help earn money to pay for his daughter to attend a Paris ballet school. He ends up getting fired from his job for disorderly conduct on the course and is arrested. In exchange for the charges being dropped, he attends AA meetings and slowly regains his form. He is recruited to play for the upstart Maxi Golf league, a takeoff on LIV Golf, but decides against it to stay with the Tour.  

I won’t give away the story, but what I will say is just about anybody of significance on the PGA Tour and LIV Golf is in the film. This includes Rory McIlroy (TaylorMade TP5), Xander Schauffele (Callaway Chrome Tour), Jordan Spieth (Titleist Pro V1x), Justin Thomas (Titleist Pro V1x), Rickie Fowler (Titleist Pro V1), Keegan Bradley (Srixon Z-Star Diamond), Tony Finau (Titleist Pro V1 Left Dot), Jim Furyk (Callaway Chrome Soft X), Sergio Garcia (TaylorMade TP5x), Bubba Watson (Titleist Pro V1x) Collin Morikawa (TaylorMade TP5), Bryson DeChambeau (Titleist Pro V1x) and Brooks Koepka (Srixon Z-Star Diamond). 

LPGA Tour stars Nelly Korda (Taylor Made TP5x) and Charley Hull (TaylorMade TP5x) have bit parts, as do former LPGA Tour players Paige Spiranac and Nancy Lopez. 

Retired PGA Tour players Lee Trevino, who was in the original movie, Jack Nicklaus, Corey Pavin and Nick Faldo are also in it. 

Scheffler’s caddie Ted Scott has a minor role. 

There’s a ton of high-profile people in the sports and entertainment worlds in the film, including Travis Kelce, Bad Bunny, Post Malone, Eminem, Kid Cudi, Ben Stiller (who was in the original film), pro wrestlers Maxwell Friedman, Becky Lynch and Nikki Bella. Sports broadcasters Dan Patrick, Stephen A. Smith, Jim Gray and Chris Berman also make appearances. 

Christopher McDonald, who played Shooter McGavin, returns after spending years in an insane asylum following his loss to Happy in the Tour Championship. But this time Shooter and Happy becomes friends and he coaches him against a team from Maxi. 

So I’ve saved the best for last. The movie has Scheffler beating up someone and getting arrested and sent to jail. It’s a takeoff of his false arrest at the 2024 PGA Championship. “Oh, no, not again,” Scheffler says in the film as he is taken away in cuffs. While in prison he forces other prison mates to watch the tournament on TV and decides at the end of the film he likes prison so much he wants to stay. 

Zalatoris plays the kid who caddied for Happy in the first film. Happy was physically abusive to him, and in the sequel he wants him to caddie for him again, only to find out he is now a pro player. But that doesn’t stop Happy for getting physically rough with him again. Zalatoris plays the role so well. 

If you liked Happy Gilmore, you’ll want to see this again to see the story all these years later, in particular to see all the cameos by pro golfers and the celebrities from various industries. This film will not be on any list for Academy nominations, but nonetheless it is funny and is actually clever in the way it uses the battle between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf to create a plot.