{"id":40180,"date":"2025-08-01T20:26:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T20:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/40180\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T20:26:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T20:26:36","slug":"the-surprise-star-of-happy-gilmore-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/40180\/","title":{"rendered":"The surprise star of ‘Happy Gilmore 2’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviews of \u201cHappy Gilmore 2<\/a>\u201d are flooding in, and while some have been more complementary than others, it\u2019s hard to argue with the overall splash the sequel to the cult classic made since it dropped less than a week ago.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Netflix announced<\/a> that \u201cHappy Gilmore 2\u201d was streamed 46.7 million times in the first three days of its release \u2014\u00a0the most successful U.S. opening weekend in Netflix history.<\/p>\n

Another thing that\u2019s hard to dispute? The surprise star who stole the show. That\u2019s right, Scottie Scheffler.<\/p>\n

You probably know Scheffler from his major dominance on the golf course, the guy who recently won the Open Championship and who made about as many headlines for his comments about what really fulfills his life<\/a>. He\u2019s the World No. 1 and has upped his major-title tally to four, but apparently he\u2019s got some acting chops, too. And if you watched \u201cHappy Gilmore 2,\u201d you might have noticed as well. He looked comfortable, and his dry humor, ability to make fun of himself and delivery was a highlight of the movie. A quick scan of the internet and social media would tell you the same.<\/p>\n


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\u2018Happy Gilmore 2\u2019 just made history. But not because it\u2019s a perfect film<\/a>
\n By:<\/p>\n


\n Alan Bastable <\/a><\/p>\n

But don\u2019t take our word for it. Ask someone who was there filming on-site.<\/p>\n

\u201cScheffler was great,\u201d said Hunter Mahan, who was Adam Sandler\u2019s golf-swing double and who appeared on this week\u2019s episode of GOLF\u2019s Subpar podcast<\/a> to discuss what it was like making the movie. \u201cPeople never see that side of Scottie. He is just head down, grind, talks about his faith and his family. But then you see that movie and you are like, dude\u2019s got a lot of personality. He is funny. He\u2019s just a dude at the end of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scheffler had a handful of memorable moments, mostly focused on the film poking fun of his bizarre arrest at the 2024 PGA Championship.<\/p>\n

He quipped, \u201cOh no, not again,\u201d after he got arrested for punching another player. And at the end of the movie, still in a jail cell, he was approached by a guard.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey Scheffler, it\u2019s been three days, you sure you don\u2019t want to make that call?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDepends,\u201d Scheffler said. \u201cWhat\u2019s for dinner?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cChicken fingers.\u201d<\/p>\n

[Pauses]<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll stick around another night.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just killed it,\u201d Mahan said. \u201cAnd they really leaned on him. And luckily he was not shying away from, you know, getting arrested and all that stuff. That\u2019s a big ask. A lot of guys would say no to that, and be like, no, I don\u2019t want to bring that up again. He could have had some agency say no, I\u2019d rather not do that. Totally leaned into it and absolutely killed it, and I think that really made Adam and everyone happy because that was something that not everyone would have leaned into and I\u2019m so happy he did because it just made the movie so much better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reviews of \u201cHappy Gilmore 2\u201d are flooding in, and while some have been more complementary than others, it\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-40180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}