Happy Gilmore imitators are back, and golf clubs are paying the price

Golf was never thought to be a violent game. Played between the rotating landscapes in the idyllic days of the summer, the sport lacked the bleeding of the boxing ring or Gridiron head clashes. But recently urgent golf-club care centers have treated casualties in the form of shredded graffiti and Guillotine clubs.

Cause? “Happy Gilmore 2.”

Almost 30 years after the original became a hit, CONTINUED At the comedy Adam Sandler debuted at Netflix at the end of July. Of the tens of millions of viewers who have watched grave Golf Golf during its first month, many are probably drawn to the nuance of the movie good words; Others have found inspiration in the shaking of the title brand of character.

These copycats line up a few steps behind their balls and the barrel with the head in a slap syllable. The results are not always beautiful.

Cut at the Moorland Road Golf Center internship facility in New Berlin, Wis., A little outside Milwaukee. Marion Accola, Moorland’s golf director, reports that the range burns through 5,000 rental clubs a year, most of them drivers. The shafts torn. The heads break free. Some of this are the result of sharp shakes or old -fashioned ear. But more and more, she said, the damage has been in the hands of happy Wannabes.

“They can break them with any kind of swinging, but most drivers are because of the gilmore,” Accola said. “They lose a club in the right field on a regular basis.”

And are not just borrowers in body count.

“Broken clubs also include the sticks of our clients themselves,” Accola said.

Unlike the sales in the box, the purpose of the problem is difficult to determine.

Sean Cain is Director of Operations and Director of PGA Instruction at The kingdom of Taylormade In Reynolds Lake Oconee in Georgia. As an elite club And the guide object under the shade of a five-star ritz-carlton, the kingdom is something of a boutique emergency room for golf clubs, but certainly not zero on Earth for PGSD (post-gilm stress disorder). Moreover, diagnosing such a disease can be difficult. But Kain says there are well -known symptoms.

“Most of the time the type of mistreatment that a” gilmore-esque “rhythm would cause to bend much more cosmetics at the top of the driver’s head than to crack the face,” Cain says. “Most people are not athletic enough to make contacts well quite well using that kind of shaking to create a face issue.”

He assumes that other countries can be more difficult.

“I would think that stores with large boxes can have a slight increase in issues because of popularity (of the film), ”says Kain.

Representatives of Golf Galaxy and Dick’s Sporting Goods did not answer questions about the issue, but a screen-Golf expert did. At Golf Vx, a high -level Simulators salesman at Arlington Heights, Ill., Nick Dentone event manager without the publication of the film and took prejudiced actions, turning the possible tragedy into opportunities.

“Being a fan of the original film, I think the publication of ‘Happy Gilmore 2’ was certainly very anticipated in the Golf world,” Dentone says. “Golf Vx did not want to leave another attack to play interest, so we embraced the opportunity by holding a competition for a month, but with a catch.”

Dentone and the enterprise bought a brand hockey And he urged the competition participants to leave their pushes at home so that they could prove their destiny in the “arrows” of the simulator for amusement and prices with the happy stick.

But even those precautions did not prevent the massacre at the Golf Vx borrowing clubs, among other film -related indignation.

“You know when they are trying to make ‘happy rhythm’ because we hear a pleasant noise,” Dentone says. “It is either the club that hits the screen as it flies outside or the child eating the ground because he waved it and fell.”

Maybe this is what you will need to break fever by catching the world of golf – a critical mass of facial plants that require bruised heads for broken ones.