Ball State will soon by Happy’s home.
Landon Gilmore, the 17-year-old Indiana native who goes by the same name as Adam Sandler’s character in the 1996 golf comedy “Happy Gilmore,” verbally committed on Friday to play golf for the Cardinals starting in Fall 2024. Gilmore is currently a rising senior at Bloomington South High.
"Going into the whole recruiting process, I had such an open mind and had nowhere that I was set on going," Gilmore told GolfChannel.com on Friday via phone. "After calls with Coach [Mike] Fleck, I went up and visited, and I loved the campus; it's small.