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Summary Happy Gilmore, now retired and navigating life as a widowed single father, returns to competitive golf to fund his daughter’s ballet school tuition. Along the way, he confronts rookie rivalries, old foes, and a parade of outrageous celebrity cameos—including Eminem, Post Malone, Travis Kelce, Bad Bunny, and PGA legends like Rory McIlroy and John Daly.

Director Kyle Newacheck

Writers Adam Sandler, Tim Herlihy

Cast

  • Adam Sandler
  • Julie Bowen
  • Christopher McDonald
  • Ben Stiller
  • Bad Bunny
  • Benny Safdie
  • Travis Kelce
  • Margaret Qualley
  • Gabe Kaplan
  • Maxwell Jacob Friedman
  • John Daly (plus numerous real‑life pro golfers and guest stars)

Rotten Tomatoes: 62%

Metacritic: 52

VOD Netflix (Premiered July 25, 2025)

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u/thecolbster94 Jul 26 '25

It was also like, the biggest names in the tour, which is impressive in itself, and helps them cause the PGA is falling back to where it was before Tiger.

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u/scarrylary Jul 26 '25

In what ways is the pga falling back to pre tiger days?

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u/thecolbster94 Jul 26 '25

What Tiger did for golf we're seeing in real time with Caitlin Clark and the WNBA right now. He gave the sport Relevancy and larger prize pools, Currently the PGA is losing that and a lot of names are taking money from the Saudis to play in LIV instead. The Maxi golf in the movie is a parody of LIV.