![]() Ladies and gentlemen, it’s Jerks Week at The Ringer. There’s nothing quite like a character you love to hate. “I actually dressed him based on Greg Norman, one of the greatest golf players of all time.” Shooter and the Shark: definitely two of the most aesthetic egos in the game! “What a privileged doofus he is,” mused the actor Christopher McDonald to Vulture in 2021, discussing Shooter a quarter century after playing him. ![]() And he does it all with the aura of a real star: clad in every shade of cream out there, so many sweaters draped over his broad shoulders, so many sneers on his face. He racks up a somehow underrated string of tournament victories, week after week. He is described early in the movie as “the tour kingpin” and the “leading money winner this year.” He rolls around in a white stretch limo befitting Burt Reynolds. As he should be! After all, within the cinematic universe of Happy Gilmore-the 1996 Adam Sandler classic about a titular deadbeat who discovers he has one hell of a golf drive-it is well established that Shooter is the man to beat, one of the best in the world. ![]() Like so many of the truly great sports jerks in history, Shooter McGavin is undeniably clutch.
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