Happy Gilmore 2

Happy Gilmore 2
Director	Kyle Newacheck
Writer	Tim Herlihy • Adam Sandler
Distributor	Netflix
Country	United States
Language	English
Release date	July 25, 2025 (2025-07-25)
Runtime	118 minutes
Budget	$152.5 million

Happy Gilmore 2 is a 2025 American comedy film directed by Kyle Newacheck. It serves as a sequel to Happy Gilmore (1996) starring Adam Sandler. American rapper Eminem has a cameo in the film, portraying Donald Floyd Jr., son of the late heckler Donald Sr.

Background

During an interview on the Dan Patrick Show, Sandler stated how he was friends with Eminem but didn't want to bother the rapper. He added, "And everybody kept saying, 'Man, Eminem would be so funny in this part,' and I was like, 'I don't want to ruin this guy's time.'" He finally relented and gave a call, saying something along the lines of, "'Dude, I know it's a pain in the ass, but it's pretty funny. Could you shoot with us for a day?' And he was like, 'Yeah, yeah, send me the stuff.'"

Plot

After winning his first Tour Championship in 1996, Happy Gilmore has a successful golf career, winning five more championships. He also has five children with his wife Virginia Venit, the professional golf tour's public relations director. After accidentally killing Virginia in 2014 when one of his drives hits her in the head, Happy feels devastated and quits golf out of guilt. He soon becomes an alcoholic and loses everything after a repossession worker sues him for instigating a brawl when mistaking the worker for a car thief.

Eleven years later, Happy works at a supermarket and lives with his only daughter and youngest child Vienna, while his four sons (Gordie, Wayne, Bobby, and Terry) have moved out and are working to support their father and sister. Vienna wants to pursue dancing, and her dance teacher recommends enrolling in a four-year ballet school in Paris, which costs $75,000 annually. Frank Manatee, CEO of Maxi Energy Drink and the golf league Maxi Golf, approaches Happy and wants him to be the league's star. Happy refuses but resumes playing golf with encouragement from John Daly, wanting to win enough money to put Vienna through ballet school.

Playing his first round since Virginia died, Happy drinks heavily and crashes his golf cart, which gets him fired from his job and into legal trouble. A jury agrees to remove all charges if he completes an alcohol treatment program and refrains from any physical altercations. The program's leader turns out to be Hal L., the caretaker who forced Happy's grandmother into sweat shop labor.

Vienna and John advise Happy to practice seriously and to join the next Tour Championship, which he does. A month later, Happy meets old companions, including Doug Thompson, president of the Tour, who worries about Maxi Golf rising fast. After Happy suggests a competition between the two leagues, Doug proposes a match with the five best players from each league competing against one another. Happy, with help from his new caddie, Oscar Mejías, plays well at the Tour Championship in the first three rounds, but collapses in the fourth on Mother's Day, seeing visions of Virginia on the course before getting drunk; he finishes sixth. The winner, Billy Jenkins, admits to being in Maxi Golf despite taking part in the Tour Championship. Happy replaces him on the team.

Having been in psychiatric care since losing to Happy at the 1996 Tour Championship, Shooter McGavin is granted a release by Frank. He explains to Shooter that all players on Maxi Golf, Billy included, have their iliolumbar ligament severed, increasing their driving distance, and asks him to join as their captain. Disgusted at this and how Frank's "extreme" version of golf strays from the traditional game, Shooter escapes. Having heard about Virginia's death, Shooter visits her grave and briefly fights Happy there before they call a truce. Happy then encounters Slim Peterson, whose father Chubbs had mentored Happy in 1996, and Slim joins Shooter in coaching Happy, Rory McIlroy, Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka, and Scottie Scheffler to face Maxi Golf.

During the match, Scottie is disqualified in the first round for punching his opponent. Although the course is heavily designed to advantage Maxi Golf, as all their golfers are long drivers, the traditional golfers manage to make it 2–2, with the help of Shooter, who replaces Brooks after he gets injured. Happy and Billy then face off in a tie-breaker. Happy has a chance to putt for victory, but Frank alters the green to make it impossible to putt. He then makes a deal with Happy: if Happy misses the putt, Happy must join Maxi Golf. Otherwise, Frank must discontinue Maxi Golf, buy Happy's house back, pay for Vienna's ballet school, give Happy his new electric car, and open an Italian restaurant for Oscar. With help from the latter, Happy sinks the putt and wins.

When Happy celebrates his three-month sobriety, Hal is exposed as a con artist and arrested. Maxi Energy Drink is discontinued after being revealed to cause significant oral health issues, leaving Frank in ruin and in hiding. Happy later accompanies his kids at an airport as they fly off to Paris, promising to join them after completing the British Open, but is forced to walk when he forgot to charge the electric car.