‘Happy Gilmore 2’ Ending Explained: Scottie Scheffler Pokes Fun at His 2024 Arrest in ‘Happy Gilmore 2’ After Credits Scene

As expected, Happy Gilmore 2 was a big hit for Netflix this weekend, with both the sequel and the 1996 movie shooting to the top of the streamer’s Top 10 trending titles list in a matter of hours.

Directed by Kyle Newacheck, with a screenplay written by Tim Herlihy and Adam Sandler, this sequel finds Happy down on his luck, and once again returning to golf in order to pay for his daughter’s ballet school. Stars Julie Bowen, Ben Stiller, and Christopher McDonald are all back, while rapper Bad Bunny and director Benny Safdie join the cast as newcomers, alongside a whole host of celebrity and athlete cameos.

After you watch Happy Gilmore 2 on Netflix, make sure you watch at least some of the credits, so that you can watch the Happy Gilmore 2 mid-credits scene. And if you’re not a golf fan and didn’t get the joke, don’t worry, because Decider is here to help. Read on for a full break down of the Happy Gilmore 2 plot summary and the Happy Gilmore 2 ending explained, including the Happy Gilmore 2 after credits scene.

Happy Gilmore 2 plot summary:

It’s been nearly thirty years since we last saw the hot-headed hockey-player-turned-golf-champion, Happy Gilmore. Over the last three decades, Happy has won a lot more golf tournaments; married his love interest from the first movie, Virginia (Julie Bowen), and had five kids. But tragedy strikes: Virginia is hit in the head by one of Happy’s famed power shots, and dies. (This mirrors the way Happy’s dad died in the first movie, when he was struck by a hockey puck.) Happy becomes an alcoholic in his grief, and loses everything: his career, his money, and his grandmother’s house.

Eleven years after Virginia’s death, Happy and his youngest kid, Vienna (played by Sandler’s real-life daughter Sunny Sandler) are now living in a dilapidated home in an “affordable” neighborhood. Happy’s four older boys have moved out of the house, but fellow golf champion John Daly (playing himself, the first of many golf cameos) is also down on his luck, and moves into Happy’s garage.

Vienna is a gifted dancer, and Vienna’s ballet instructor (played by Sandler’s IRL wife Jackie Sandler) tells Happy she took the liberty of submitting Vienna to a prestigious dance school. Vienna got in, but the school will cost Happy $300,000. He definitely doesn’t make enough at his grocery store job for that. With encouragement from John Daly, Happy decides to return to golf to win enough money to fund his daughter’s dreams.

Meanwhile, a tech bro entrepreneur named Frank Manatee (played by Benny Safdie) tries to recruit Happy for his Maxi Golf league, a new “exciting” version of golf that shortens the game and adds all sorts of mini-golf-esque pizazz. Happy turns him down, but he does start training to get back into the traditional golf game. His first game back, a wasted Happy crashes a golf cart. A court sentences him to an alcohol treatment program, run by the former abusive nursing home caretaker, Hal L (Ben Stiller). Hal L is once again taking advantage of his charges, forcing them to perform manual labor tasks for him in the name of sobriety. Happy meets a young woman in the program named Charlotte (played by Sandler’s oldest daughter Sadie) who helps him on his sobriety journey.

Happy gets sober, and gets serious about golf. He joins the Tour Championship, where he reconnects with a bunch of old golf pals. (Cue the dozens of pro-golfer cameos!) The old golf guard is very worried about Manatee’s Maxi Golf league, which threatens to end traditional golf for good. A challenge is issued: A competition between the Maxi Golf team, and the five best players from the traditional golf team. But first, they have to have a competition to figure out who the best five players are.

Things are going well for Happy, until Mother’s Day. Haunted by his wife’s death, Happy relapses, gets drunk, and finishes in sixth place. However, one of the top five golfers, Billy Jenkins (Haley Joel Osment), reveals he is actually a spy for the Maxi Golf league, and switches teams. So, Happy gets to join the team—which is good, because he lost all the money he’s earned thus far to fines. The good guy team includes Happy, his new caddy Oscar (played by Bad Bunny), and four IRl golfers: Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, Bryson Dechambeau, and Brooks Koepka.

Meanwhile, Happy’s old rival Shooter McGavin (Christopher McDonald) is freed from the psychiatric institute where he’s spent the last 30 years. His savior? Maxi Golf founder Manatee, who wants to recruit Shooter to his team. Manatee reveals to shooter that all of his golfers have had a special surgery that allows them to hit golf balls really, really far.

But Shooter is a golf purist, and refuses. Shooter reconnects with Happy, and after an old man brawl in a cemetery, the two men strike a truce. After all, now they have a common enemy in Manatee. With the help of Shooter and the son of his mentor, Slim Peterson (played by Lavell Crawford), Happy Gilmore gets back to the top of his game, just in time to save traditional golf forever.

During the big final match, two of the pro golfers are disqualified. (Scottie Scheffler is disqualified for punching one of the Maxi golfers, and Brooks Koepka is disqualified for an injury.) Shooter steps up, and ties up the match. Happy faces off with Billy Jenkins on the tie-breaking hole. Just to make things interesting, Happy strikes a deal with Manatee: If he makes the impossible putt, Manatee will discontinue Maxi Golf, buy Happy his grandmother’s house back, pay for Vienna’s ballet school, and give Happy his electric Rolls-Royce. Oh, and give Oscar the caddy his own Italian restaurant. But if Happy misses, he’ll join Maxi Golf. Seems like a fair trade!

Happy Gilmore 2 ending explained:

With the help of Bad Bunny, Happy makes the impossible shot, and wins the match. Hooray! Traditional golf has been saved! Also, Happy gets his grandmother’s house back, gets to send Vienna to ballet school in Paris, and gets a brand-new car! And Oscar gets an Italian restaurant!

Happy attends one last Alcoholics Anonymous meeting with Hal L., where he receives a coin for being three months sober. After facing more verbal abuse from Hal, Charlotte reveals she is an undercover FBI agent, and calls in back-up to have Hal arrested. Hal steals Happy’s coin and flees, and the group chases him down. This mirrors the end of the first Happy Gilmore movie, when Shooter runs off with Happy’s jacket.

While the mob chases Hal, Happy and Charlotte share a sweet moment together. “You’re a very cool kid,” Happy tells her.

“You’re a very cool guy,” Charlotte replies. “You remind me of my dad.”

Of course, in reality, Sandler is her dad—Charlotte is played by the comedian’s oldest daughter, 19-year-old Sadie Sandler.

In the final scene of the film, Happy says goodbye to his children at the airport. Vienna is off to ballet school in Paris, and, apparently, all four of her brothers are going with her. Happy promises he’ll see them all soon at the U.K. Open. Happy watches their plane take off outside the airport, and, as happens at the end of the first movie, sees all his dead friends and family in floating in the sky. His late wife Virginia appears and tells him he is OK. Awww.

Happy gets into his new electric Rolls-Royce to drive home. But he forgot to charge the car, and the battery is dead. Happy does some classic Happy Gilmore shouting, then collects his golf clubs to walk home. With that, the movie ends.

Is there a Happy Gilmore 2 after credits scene?

There is a Happy Gilmore 2 mid-credits scene, after the initial cast credits roll. In the Happy Gilmore 2 mid-credits scene, a news segment reveals that Maxi Golf has been shut down, after a recall of its branded energy drink, which was found to cause health problems, including severe bad breath.

We then pull out to see Scottie Scheffler in jail, after his arrest for assaulting his opponent on the green. A guard asks Scheffler if he wants to make his phone call. “It’s been three days.”

“It depends,” Scheffler replies. “What’s for dinner?”

“Chicken fingers,” the guard replies.

“I’ll stick around another night,” Scheffler decides. With that last cameo and joke, Happy Gilmore 2 comes to an end.

The joke is even more funny if you know that the real Scheffler really was arrested last year, during Round 2 of the PGA Championship, after being charged with second-degree assault of a police officer. However, the charges were later dropped and Scheffler was released. Clearly, he’s willing to laugh at the situation now!