“Happy Gilmore” is making a comeback.
Actor Adam Sandler will create a sequel to the zany 1996 golf comedy and it will be shown on Netflix, the streaming service confirmed last week.
Sandler starred as the short-tempered, long-driving, slap-shot-style Happy Gilmore, who was trying to earn enough prize money to save his grandmother’s home and won the Tour Championship in the process. Along the way, Gilmore teamed with one-handed instructor Chubbs Peterson (played by the late Carl Weathers) against nemesis touring pro Shooter McGavin (Christopher McDonald) and traded punches with Bob Barker, the late game-show host who made a cameo as himself.
“Happy Gilmore” made nearly $40 million at the box office in 1996, according to Variety magazine. No release date for “Happy Gilmore 2” has been set. READ MORE
Actor Will Ferrell will star in “Golf,” a 10-episode Netflix comedy series based on a fictional golf legend, the streaming service announced. READ MORE
Omni La Costa Resort and Spa has petitioned the NCAA to host the national women’s and men’s Division I championships for two more years, through 2028, and one key figure in the college game has thrown his support behind the idea of a permanent site in Carlsbad, California.
John Fields, who has led the Texas men to two national championships in his 27-year tenure and coached such future professional stars as Scottie Scheffler and Jordan Spieth, outlined his plan for a regular host site to Golf Digest’s Tod Leonard. La Costa is hosting the NCAA women’s and men’s in consecutive weeks, through May 29. READ MORE
The NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Championship will decide its individual winner today and set the eight-team field for match play, which will conclude Wednesday at Omni La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California. To follow the scoring, click for TEAM and INDIVIDUAL results.
The field is set for the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championship to be played May 24-29 at Omni La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California. READ MORE
The Gary Player International Golfer of the Year award will debut this year and honor five outstanding college golfers from outside of the U.S. in NCAA divisions I, II and III, the NAIA and the NJCAA, the Golf Coaches Association of America announced. READ MORE
Jeanne Bisgood, who played for Great Britain and Ireland’s first team to defeat the Americans in the Curtis Cup, died Wednesday, May 15, according to U.K. media reports. She was 100. No cause of death was cited.
Bisgood, a three-time English Women’s Amateur champion, played for GB&I in three Curtis Cups in the early 1950s, including the 1952 edition when the hosts ended the Americans’ six-match winning streak with a 5-4 victory at Muirfield in Scotland. She regularly competed for England in the Home Internationals and on numerous other international teams and captained GB&I’s 1970 Curtis Cup squad.
She left Oxford after one year to join the Women’s Royal Navy Service during World War II, serving in intelligence. She was trained as a barrister and later worked in education and as a magistrate. Bisgood was a member of Parkstone Golf Club in Poole, England, for more than 80 years and served as the club’s first female president.
In a profile that Global Golf Post contributor Lewine Mair wrote last year for Britain’s Golf Monthly magazine, Bisgood said, “The closer I get to the Day of Judgment, the more closely I stick to the rules.” READ MORE
TAP-INS
The inaugural LPGA USGA Girls Golf National Championship will be played June 24-27 at Pine Needles Lodge and Club in Southern Pines, North Carolina, the LPGA Foundation announced. The event, which will be part of the Peggy Kirk Bell Girls Golf Tour, will feature 144 players in three age divisions from 9 to 18. READ MORE
The PGA of America’s REACH Foundation donated $250,000 to Seneca Golf Course in Louisville, Kentucky, through the PGA Places to Play program. The donation will be used for course improvements at Seneca, which is part of the city’s Parks and Recreation Department. READ MORE
Compiled by Steve Harmon