Happy Gilmore 2 has been confirmed by Netflix.
The streaming giant has revealed Adam Sandler will reprise his role as the titular character in a follow up to the 1996 movie.
A post on Netflix's X account read: "Happy Gilmore is back! Adam Sandler will reprise his iconic role in a brand new movie coming to Netflix."
Happy Gilmore tells the story of Sandler's unsuccessful ice hockey player character, who discovers he has a talent for golf and competes in a tournament to raise money and save his grandmother's house.
Following the confirmation, golf's PGA Tour wrote on X: "He's baaack."
The news comes just a month after Sandler seemingly confirmed Happy Gilmore 2 to Drew Barrymore.
The 49-year-old actress was thrilled when Christopher McDonald — who portrayed Shooter McGavin in the 1996 golfing comedy — recently teased a sequel was in the works.
She texted her 50 First Dates co-star to find out if it was true he'd written a new screenplay.
Discussing the subject in a clip for the Drew's News segment of her eponymous talk show, Drew said: "Are you kidding me? I want it.
"I need it and I stayed up last night with my daughter watching Billy Madison.
"And then I sent Sandler a video of that and then he sent me another video back and I'm waiting to see if he's confirming about the Happy Gilmore 2 script because actor Christopher McDonald, who was Shooter McGavin, the bad guy. He was in the original film ... he claims that Adam recently showed him a copy of the first draft to the sequel of Happy Gilmore.
"And so I'm waiting to find out if Christopher McDonald is correct, which I'm not doubting him.
"I'm a proper journalist, I sent him a picture of all of us [at the show]."
The clip then jumped and rejoined Drew as she looked at her phone and teased: "Well, this just in. I have breaking news.
"So I'll just say this from my source that it is in process ... so there is a process and that process is in process."
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