Followers on the FedEx St. Jude Championship this weekend will be identical to Scottie Scheffler.
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Netflix is presenting “Scottie’s Rooster Shack” on the occasion, a nod to the four-time main winner’s position in “Pleased Gilmore 2.”
Within the movie, launched on Netflix on July 25, Scheffler makes a playful cameo that features him punching the Crew Maxi golfer he is going through and ending up in handcuffs as a tongue-in-cheek nod to the titular character’s famously quick fuse. The scene additionally references Scheffler’s real-life arrest by the Louisville Metro Police outdoors of Valhalla Golf Membership after he tried to drive into the doorway of the 2024 PGA Championship website.
The joke continues within the holding cell as an officer approaches Scheffler and says, “It has been three days — certain you do not wish to make that decision?”
“Relies upon. What’s for dinner?” Scheffler asks. The officer says hen fingers, prompting Scheffler to reply: “I will stick round one other evening” in a viral clip.
The hen shack at TPC Southwind features a picture op of Scheffler from the scene the place followers can “do their time.” The menu options traditional hen fingers, Memphis honey gold hen fingers and zesty lemon pepper moist fingers.
Scheffler known as the expertise “quite a lot of enjoyable,” and stated that Adam Sandler and his staff did a great job of creating the golfers snug.
“It is one of many issues I instructed them after we bought accomplished filming the film was like, ‘You are doing an amazing job, I feel the film goes to end up nice,'” he stated on Wednesday. “However most significantly, all people on the film set was super. All people was relaxed. They labored exhausting however that they had enjoyable whereas they have been doing it.”
Scheffler was amongst a plethora of previous and current golfers to look within the movie, together with Jack Nicklaus, Fred {Couples}, Rory McIlroy, Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka.
He added that his household and buddies loved the movie, although Scheffler — by no means keen on the highlight — expressed that seeing himself on the massive display was a singular expertise.
“I feel it is form of bizarre seeing your self — we’re sitting there on the premier, and anytime I got here up on display, it is only a bizarre feeling and one thing that I am undoubtedly not used to,” he stated. “However like I stated, we had a ton of enjoyable filming it. It looks as if the reception from the general public has been actually good.”
Scheffler is coming off a win on the Open Championship final month.



















