{"id":391087,"date":"2026-10-24T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/he-was-supposed-to-play-a-golf-villain-but-he-became-a-cultural-legend\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T16:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T15:00:09","slug":"he-was-supposed-to-play-a-golf-villain-but-he-became-a-cultural-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/he-was-supposed-to-play-a-golf-villain-but-he-became-a-cultural-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"He was supposed to play a golf villain, but he became a cultural legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/QF0qQSqz2XQ\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"He was supposed to play a golf villain, but he became a cultural legend\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QF0qQSqz2XQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Actor Christopher McDonald reflects on his iconic role as the arrogant golfer Shooter McGavin in &quot;Happy Gilmore.&quot; McDonald shares how he actually made his final putt on the fifth try after the crew started betting against him, and how playing the legendary golf villain sticks with him today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Christopher McDonald reflects on his iconic role as the arrogant golfer Shooter McGavin in &quot;Happy Gilmore.&quot; McDonald shares how he actually made his final putt on the fifth try after the crew started betting against him, and how playing the legendary golf villain sticks with him today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":391088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-391087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>He was supposed to play a golf villain, but he became a cultural legend | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch He was supposed to play a golf villain, but he became a cultural legend for free, here on News ISC. 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