Padraig Harrington said he considered using the Happy Gilmore swing in a tournament

"Happy Gilmore 2" comes out on Netflix on July 25 and it features a slew of cameos from professional golfers, but not two-time Open Championship winner Padraig Harrington.

And that sort of baffles him.

"Disappointed they didn't ask the best person in the world doing a Happy Gilmore to be in it, but there you go," he said Thursday in Tucson ahead of the PGA Tour Champions Cologuard Classic, the fourth event on the senior circuit in 2025.

Harrington went in-depth on the golf swing of Adam Sandler's character, who takes several steps before unloading on the golf ball. Every golfer knows the move, because at some point, everyone's tried it.

"Look, it's second nature to me, I grew up playing Hurling so I've never had a second thought about doing a Happy Gilmore, running up, hitting it," he said. "I did consider using it in tournament play. I tried to tidy it up a bit. So if you look at my old Happy Gilmores, they are full out 130-mile an hour golf swings. I did try and tidy it up to see if I could maybe use it on the golf course. I could swing faster, but just didn't quite get the strike of a normal shot so it wasn't really worth it. I haven't done one for ages and I do it straight away.

"As I said, there's a great Irish sport, probably the best sport in the world called hurling and it's second nature for us to swing at a ball with a stick, usually with somebody else trying to hit you at the same time. I don't know if it just builds up a natural confidence with it."

Harrington, known for a series of instructional videos on YouTube, insists the Happy Gilmore swing is actually good for golfers.

"Every kid should do it, every kid should be doing Happy Gilmores because it perfects the right movement in the golf swing, it perfects the right pivot," he said. "Everything about it is good for your golf swing. So everybody should try it and do it and their golf swing should be a tidied up version of that."

As for the popular movie sequel, Harrington says he plans to see it.

"I'll watch it, yeah, yeah. Watch it more for the cameos I think more than anything else. Yeah, it should be a bit of fun."

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Padraig Harrington said he once considered swinging like Happy Gilmore