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Happy Gilmore is a struggling, hot-tempered aspiring hockey player whose life is defined by his slap shot and a deep love for his grandmother. Raised by her since childhood, Happy's dreams of professional hockey are repeatedly crushed due to his aggressive outbursts and lack of skating finesse. Disaster strikes when the IRS seizes Grandma Gilmore's home of sixty years over unpaid taxes, giving her a mere ninety days to pay a massive sum of four hundred dollars, or face eviction.Desperate for cash, Happy encounters local golfers loading clubs into a station wagon and demonstrates his bizarre, hockey-style swing off the tee. Stunned by his raw, unprecedented driving distance—capable of launching a golf ball hundreds of yards—failed golf pro Chubbs Peterson convinces Happy to enter a local tournament. Chubbs, who lost his hand to an alligator, sees Happy as a weapon to defeat Shooter McGavin, the arrogant, reigning champion of the tour who despises outsiders.Happy enters the tournament strictly for the prize money to save his grandmother's house. Despite his total disregard for golf etiquette, crude trash-talking, and violent altercations with hecklers, Happy becomes an overnight sensation. His unorthodox behavior draws massive, rowdy crowds to the previously stuffy sport, much to the horror of tour director Virginia Venit and the delight of television networks.As the pressure mounts, Happy’s fierce temper remains his biggest obstacle. Shooter McGavin uses psychological warfare to provoke him, leading to disastrous lapses on the course. Meanwhile, Happy develops a tentative romance with Virginia, who helps him channel his aggression. When Happy attacks a game-show host on live television after losing a charity match, the tour suspends him, threatening his entire mission.To save the house, Happy makes a high-stakes wager with Shooter: if Happy wins the upcoming Tour Championship, he keeps his grandmother's home and wins the jacket; if he loses, he must quit golf forever and Shooter gets the house. The final tournament is an intense psychological and athletic showdown. Haunted by the memory of the alligator that took his hand, Chubbs suffers a fatal heart attack after gifting Happy a stuffed alligator head. Devastated, Happy dedicates his final round to his late mentor.Trailing Shooter on the final hole, Happy faces an impossible obstacle when a television tower collapses onto his ball. With nerves of steel, he sinks a miraculous, gravity-defying putt off the debris to win the tournament. Happy secures the prize money, saves his grandmother's home, defeats Shooter, and finally finds peace by honoring Chubbs's legacy.