In 1996’s “Happy Gilmore,” Weathers played the golf mentor to Sandler’s Happy Gilmore. Sandler told Collider that Chubbs had a bigger part in the sequel when they were drafting the initial scripts.

Happy Gilmore 2 finally arrived on Netflix this week, much to the delight of fans who have been waiting almost 30 years to see Adam Sandler reprise his role as the iconic angry golfer.

Happy Gilmore 2 has finally landed on Netflix, and Adam Sandler has opened up about a huge last-minute change they had to make to the film. The sequel picks up 29 years after the 1996 movie, when Happy Gilmore comes out of retirement and returns to golf to pay for his daughter’s ballet classes following the tragic death of his wife.

Adam Sandler is disappointed that one very important part of "Happy Gilmore" will not be happening for the sequel coming to Netflix on July 25.

Wisconsin basketball legend and current NBA G League forward Frank Kaminsky didn’t mince words when reviewing Netflix’s Happy Gilmore 2 on Saturday.

Adam Sandler, Julie Bowen, Christopher McDonald, Ben Stiller and more actors from ‘Happy Gilmore’ are returning for ‘Happy Gilmore 2’

Happy Gilmore 2, released on Netflix today, features an emotional tribute to all the actors who died since the first film

On February 16, 1996, Universal Pictures introduced Happy Gilmore to audiences. The Adam Sandler starrer went on to gross $41 million and became a cable TV perennial enroute to its belated Netflix sequel in 2025. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review is below: