Adam Sandler is back on the green for Happy Gilmore 2 — and Travis Kelce is keeping him on his toes.
Sandler, 58, along with costars Julie Bowen and Christopher McDonald, appeared during Netflix’s 2025 Tudum special on Saturday, May 31, to field some questions about the upcoming sequel and reveal the movie’s full length trailer.
“Happy Gilmore sucks now?” a fellow golfer asks in amazement in the opening moments of the teaser as he watches the once-prolific golfer (Sandler) fall on his face while trying to swing a club. “Eat a back of d**ks!” Sandler replies in typical Happy fashion.
The trailer reveals that years after becoming a legend on the green, Happy has stopped playing golf and has seemingly lost his touch. When his daughter (played by Sandler’s real life daughter Sadie) wants to attend ballet school, Happy and his wife, Virginia (Bowen), realize the only way they’ll be able to afford her dreams is if Happy returns to the game he thought he left behind.
The teaser follows Happy and he tries to get back in the swing of things through practice, breaking in his new caddy (played by Bad Bunny), entering himself in a tournament, releasing some frustrations wi and even facing off with his longtime rival Scooter McGavin (McDonald).
“You stole my life from me,” Scooter says. “Why would I want to steal the life of someone who eats pieces of s*** for breakast?” Happy replies before the two square off in a graveyard.
Elsewhere in the trailer, Kelce makes an appearance as a hotel worker who gives Bad Bunny a good old fashioned scare. “BOO!” Kelce yells in Happy’s face, causing him to yelp in fear.
Netflix announced in May 2024 that plans for a sequel were in the works. The original 1996 film follows Happy as he discovers his natural talent for golf after an unsuccessful career as an ice hockey player. After entering a golf tournament hoping to win money to save his grandmother’s house from foreclosure, a trick shot wins him the championship, the girl — and his grandma’s home back.
A teaser trailer in March revealed that Happy Gilmore 2 would pick up with Happy as a dad and husband — and someone who thought golf was in the rearview mirror.
“We’re not done with golf,” Bowen’s Virginia tells Happy as they seemingly move out of their current home. “Let them see the Happy I fell in love with.”
The teaser also confirmed that Kelce would have a role in the film as what seems to be a hotel worker welcoming Happy back to his old stomping grounds.
“The whole thing was to get to hang out with Travis. That’s why we put it together,” Sandler joked during an August 2024 episode of Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast. “We’re going there [to New Jersey]. Travis, by the way, thank you, I heard you talking about [Happy Gilmore 2] on your show, you guys.”
Sandler confessed he had initially a special role in mind for the NFL star, but they ultimately decided not to pursue that direction.
“We were talking about you playing my son while we were writing it, literally, like, six months ago,” Sandler continued. “We were like, imagine if Travis was my first baby, how funny that would be. Just a badass.”
While many details of the Happy Gilmore 2 plot have been kept under wraps ahead of its release, new cast addition Kym Whitley gave Us Weekly exclusive insight into her experience working on the film.
“It’s going to be hilarious,” Whitley told Us while attending the 16th Annual AAFCA Awards, in February. “First of all, Adam Sandler, not only is he funny, is a great guy. When I say great, not only that he’s just a great person, but he reaches back. He gets all his comic friends. He gives us all jobs, and he lets us play around with the script. He’ll be like, ‘Try it! Do this and that!’”
Happy Gilmore hits Netflix on Friday, July 25.
