“Happy Gilmore 2” recorded during Netflix’s opening weekend. Adam Sandler’s sequel is full of nostalgia, expected farce humor and a large number of cameos from professional golf and entertainment.
Everyone from Scottie Scheffler to Rory McIlroy, John Daly, Jack Nicklaus and Rickie Fowler plays the screen in the Sandler sequel. So far, you’ve heard that PGA Tour champion Hunter Mahan is playing Sandler’s swing doubles after the actor was injured. But Mahan is not Sandler’s first choice for filling.
Producer Chad Mumm recently revealed on Skratch’s Vanity Index podcast that he initially made Michael Block a physical double for Sandler.
“The producer is like, ‘We have a problem. Adam hurts his knees.’ “And he’s worried he won’t be able to run the swing like he thought he could. One day later you put Michael on Gilmore so he had to cut his hair.
That’s how much time Blockie has been on the scene.
“They looked at him and they were like that, ‘Yes, it won’t be going to work he’s too tall.
Mom said he next contacted Jason Dufner’s agent, but Dufner refused. Mom then sent an email to all agencies in search of a happy Gilmore Swing Double.
“I’m just looking for golfers in my 30s or 40s who can do swing and have time,” Moom said.
Ten minutes later, he received a video of Mahan’s blasting ball while having a happy Gilmore running swing and making a decision.
Mahan told Golf’s Low Podcast that he spent a lot of time learning and perfecting Gilmore’s swing. He didn’t even want to mess with Sandler’s signature tear.
“I’m watching ‘Happy Gilmore’, the first movie, and then figure out how he got into his [swing] – Is it a walk, it’s a shuffle, which foot will go first, do you know? I wanted to do my best to make myself professional and authentic,” Mahan said. “So, I was a little messy and trying to get something different, I mean, he ended up high, right? Like, you can say, like, prosper! His feet fell a little, and he wasn’t really standing there. It’s a big high finish and stuff, so I wanted to make sure I got as good as possible.
“And I think it was the first day on Thursday, and I quickly introduced him to him and he thought, I hope it gets big and it’s not that important to walk into it, but kind of like a big, long, long, exaggerated swing, as much as possible, tall, tall, you know, he’s really tall, that’s his biggest guide to him, and what I can do, I can do, I can explore me like I do.
Mahan performed his role perfectly, but the golf world was stripped of another Michael Block moment – at least until next year’s PGA title at Aronimink.
