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Christopher McDonald Begged 'Happy Gilmore' Director To Let Him Try Memorable Final Putt from Movie
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8/28/2024
Christopher McDonald Begged 'Happy Gilmore' Director To Let Him Try Memorable Final Putt from Movie
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No, I wasn't an avid golf player, but I did love the game.
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I started out with these blades.
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People don't know golf.
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That's very hard.
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It's like a dime-sized sweet spot.
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And I hated the game, so I couldn't hit it straight.
00:12
And then I discovered, oh, you can get these hollowback ones.
00:14
Oh, I see.
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Those are great.
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A little more forgiving.
00:17
And then I played a lot more.
00:20
When the first movie came out, I had been golfing every day, like six days a week, with
00:26
a lot of good golfers out there, between setups, with the lights and all that stuff.
00:31
And boy, my short game got crazy then.
00:34
And I begged our director, Dennis Dugan, to let me make that final shot, even though it
00:41
wasn't a putting green, of course.
00:43
It was a botanical garden, because no one's going to let you drop a tower and bring in
00:47
a BW there.
00:48
Perfect.
00:49
Right?
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But he gave me five tries.
00:51
I think that was the fifth.
00:52
I think that was the fifth, and that was a really crazy, ad-libbed response in the afterwards.
00:58
It was very fun to do.
01:00
And I threw my club up in the air, my putter up in the air, and went, God, as I did it,
01:03
let go, and went, I hope I don't hit anybody.
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But most of the people were behind me.
01:09
But I was pretty excited to put it on film.
01:12
I'm a fan.
01:13
I'm not that big a fan, because I'm a Buffalo Bills fan, and they happened to do a little
01:17
damage to my team for a couple of years now, a little bit bitter, party of one, bitter.
01:22
Anyway, not a party of one, but I love that these guys are coming out, everybody.
01:27
And there's a line that they recently did something where they invited people to come
01:31
out to try out for there being extras of 1,000 people down there.
01:35
What?
01:36
Wow.
01:37
So you can tell people really love this movie, and I know it's going to be just delicious
01:43
to do the second one, so I'm excited.
01:45
I go to driving ranges and shoot until my hands turn to hamburger, and I say, that's
01:49
enough for today.
01:50
I go back and try to heal, and then I come back two days later.
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I do, I do, I got my short game down, but it's those drives, that's like, because Gilmore's
01:59
so famous for that long, crazy swing that he has, and that's hard to match.
02:04
So I just kind of leave that to him, and I'll do the short stuff for you.
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