Adam Sandler’s long-gestating sequel Happy Gilmore 2 premiered with big viewership numbers, ranking at No. 1 on the Netflix list of top 10 English-language movies.

“Happy Gilmore 2” launched on the streamer on July 25. For the week of July 21 through 27, the film generated 46.7 million views over three days, with views defined as total hours watched divided by the total runtime. That makes this start the biggest U.S. opening weekend of all time for a Netflix film, as well as the best ever for one of Sandler’s movies. He has starred in nearly a dozen original movies for Netflix, including “Murder Mystery,” “Hubie Halloween” and “The Week Of.”

The decades-old comedy ranked at No. 3 on the global top 10 list with 11.4 million views, marking its second consecutive week on the list.

Happy Gilmore 2 arrived nearly 30 years after the 1996 film, which generated $40 million at the box office and helped to cement Sandler as a big comedy star. The original followed the titular Happy Gilmore, a would-be hockey player with anger management issues who becomes a golf phenom thanks to his unusual antics. He joins a golf tournament to win money to stop the foreclosure of his grandmother’s house.

He’s inspired to pick up his golf clubs again to finance his daughter’s exorbitantly expensive ballet school in Paris. Christopher McDonald also reprises his role as maniacal pro-golfer Shooter McGavin, while Benny Safdie, Bad Bunny, Travis Kelce and Sandler’s real-life wife and kids — Jackie, Sunny and Sadie — joined the cast.

Cameo appearances include PGA champions Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler, “Hot Ones” host Sean Evans and Food Network star Guy Fieri.

In Variety’s review, chief film critic Owen Gleiberman referred to “Happy Gilmore 2” as “a happy orgy of raucous fan-service nostalgia.”

On the top 10 movies list, “KPop Demon Hunters” landed in second place with 26.3 million views in its sixth week. The action-musical now ranks as the most popular Netflix animated film of all time.

On the TV front, “Untamed” remained in first place on the English language series chart for the second consecutive week. The murder mystery, set at Yosemite National Park, drew 26.1 million views for the week, up from the 24.6 million views in its debut. The show, starring Eric Bana, was recently renewed for a second season.