The 10 best golf films of all time
The 10 best golf films: 9. Happy Gilmore
Adam Sandler plays Happy Gilmore, the ace ice hockey player who becomes a golfer. Well that’s not quite true – he would like to be a hockey superstar but, he can’t actually skate very well and has a temper that he loses quicker than the babysitter’s boyfriend is out the back door when you get home – especially if he knows you’ve had a bad round.
The two things he does possess however are a ferocious shot and a loving grandma who he lives with – because of what the game of hockey has done to his parents.
Unfortunately, grandma has not paid her taxes for several years and sees her house repossessed and has only 90 days to raise the money to buy it back.
Happy discovers he has an amazing golf drive and starts to hustle money to try to improve his grandma’s situation and is spotted by Chubbs (Carl Weathers) who persuades him to enter a qualifying tournament which, if he wins, means he can join the pro tour. Of course, he does, but not everybody welcomes the foul mouthed, short-tempered newcomer.
Can Happy raise the money he needs? Can he learn to putt? Can golf handle him and his fans?
Alex Perry
Alex has been the editor of National Club Golfer since 2017. A Devonian who enjoys wittering on about his south west roots, Alex moved north to join NCG after more than a decade in London, the last five of which were with ESPN. Away from golf, Alex follows Torquay United and spends too much time playing his PlayStation or his guitar and not enough time practising his short game.
