Happy Gilmore Is Adam Sandler s Best Comedy
On its 25th anniversary, we look back at an early Sandler hit that is not only full of great performances and memorable lines, but also changed the way we enjoy golf.
After finishing up a successful stint on
SNL in 1995, Adam Sandler launched head first into a movie career that is still going strong in its third decade. One of the earliest entries in the Sandler catalog is the golf comedy
Happy Gilmore, about a wannabe hockey player who finds unexpected success as a professional golfer. And even though it’s just one in a long line of fish-out-of-water comedies that define the early part of Sandler’s big-screen career, the film ultimately changed the face of sports movies or at the very least, the sport of golf and has attracted a legion of fans unlike any of this other comedies.