If Adam Sandler says that Will Zalatoris is the kid-caddie from Happy Gilmore, then that’s what I’m going with.

So a trending topic from The Masters this past weekend was the above tweet from Adam Sandler. I’ll admit, I had never heard of Will Zalatoris before he started moving up the leaderboard on Saturday, but this put him FIRMLY on my radar.

Because Zalatoris is a dead ringer for that kid in Happy Gilmore. That’s exactly how you think that kid would look 25-ish years in the future. To the point where I think most of the internet started to believe that the tweet from Sandler was true. I know I did. Then, at about 9 o’clock last night, Lindsey was on her phone and said, ‘awwww that’s not really the kid from Happy Gilmore.’ I was legitimately bummed out. I wanted to live in a world where the kid-caddie from Happy Gilmore went on to real life golf fame and almost won a green jacket at The Masters. Hell, if I’m Will Zalatoris, I think I would have steered right into that skid. Zalatoris did fire off a funny reply:

Hilarious! But I REALLY, really really really really, wanted it to be true that he was actually the kid from Happy Gilmore. I think I’m just going to tell my brain that he really is that kid and continue to root for him as, ‘the kid from Happy Gilmore.’ I’ve already convinced my brain that we’re still young and that my current job is just a stepping stone to a bigger career in media, so the Gilmore/Zalatoris storyline shouldn’t be too tough of a sell.

PS: Behind the Blog: Me seeing Sandler’s tweet trend yesterday, ‘I can’t believe that guy is the kid from Happy Gilmore! That’s the perfect blog for tomorrow. 90’s movie nostalgia and golf.’ Lindsey 3 hours later; ‘awwwwww that’s not really the kid from Happy Gilmore.’ Me, ‘s—, that’ what I was going to use as blog fodder tomorrow.’ Lindsey, ‘yeah that sucks but it’s not him.’ Me, ‘I think I’ll just blog about how I was going to blog about him being the kid from Happy Gilmore.’ Scene.