What happens in 'Happy Gilmore 2' gold jacket scene? Keegan Bradley, Jordan Spieth explain

USA Today

09-07-2025

With just a few weeks until the premiere of "Happy Gilmore 2" on July 25, it's about time to give you a sneak peek of what will undoubtedly be one of the best scenes of the much-anticipated movie starring Adam Sandler.
That would be the Gold Jacket dinner, a riff off the famous Champions Dinner at Augusta National on the Tuesday of Masters week. In the hilarious 1996 original of Happy Gilmore, former Tour pro Mark Lye wears the coveted Gold Jacket in an early scene, which is awarded to winners of the Tour Championship. Shooter McGavin, everyone's favorite golf villain, desperately wants to win it but, well, you know what happens — and if you don't, shame on you.
Twenty-nine years later, Happy is back, and a who's who of the golf world joined the set in New Jersey for the filming of the dinner, which was shot over two days.
'That's where we shot our scene after he got his check and he'd won,' Lee Trevino, who had multiple cameos in the original movie – 'I still get residuals today. It's not much. You can buy a Coke,' he said – told News4Jax. 'I was sitting next to Adam (Sandler) after he got his check and he won. Adam was to my right and Nicklaus here (to his left). Fred Couples, Nick Faldo and then we had Corey Pavin and (Xander) Schauffele over at another table. It was fantastic.'
Schauffele wasn't the only current player sporting a Gold Jacket for the scene. Jordan Spieth, Rickie Fowler, Collin Morikawa and Keegan Bradley were there, too.
'It was like every single great historical player was at this day,' Bradley recalled to Golfweek. 'I was with Jordan Spieth and it was just funny to see these guys in the jacket, they're acting in a movie that as a kid that I loved and watched and then here I am meeting Adam Sandler. It was really fun, but also really, really scary. It was nerve-racking when all of a sudden you have this line and then it's like, OK, this part is all around me. I can't screw this up. I got really nervous, but it was great. I can't wait to see it.'
Neither can Trevino, who shared that Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce played the role of a waiter and – spoiler alert – gets involved in more than just delivering the entrees. 'We got to cheering or something and he chest-bumped Schauffele and knocked him over the table,' Trevino said. 'It was hilarious.'
Spieth said that he and Bradley, Fowler, Morikawa, and Schauffele were able to hang out a bunch since they were all on the set at the same time and only needed for the dinner scene.
'I was such a fan," Spieth said of the original Happy Gilmore during a Sirius XM interview late last year. "Weren't we all growing up? Like, people who don't know golf are like, 'Oh, have you ever seen Happy Gilmore?' And it's like, well, we get the opportunity I'm gonna go try and be in it.'
And while it still is to be seen how much of Spieth's cameo will make the flick or be left on the cutting room floor, he and the other real-life Tour pros went home with their Gold Jackets.
'I got a copy of the script – just our part – and I'm going to get it framed,' Spieth said.