Snooker legend Stephen Hendry behind camera for Happy Gilmore remake

Seven-times world snooker champion Stephen Hendry with team partners Scott Goodall, right, and Yorkshire Post golf writer Chris Stratford at Forest Pines.

The nine-handicapper took part in a Snooker Legends event at Forest Pines, Brigg, on Tuesday and showed his prowess with some excellent scoring in difficult windy conditions.

Hendry also acted as an impromptu cameraman when one of the partners in his team, Scott Goodall, Senior Manager at PokerStars, elected to hit a tee shot in the style of Happy Gilmore, the eponymous hero of the golfing film starring Adam Sandler.

Goodall – like Gilmore – has an ice hockey background and astounded the snooker star by hitting the ball around 240 yards up the middle of the 17th fairway of the Beeches Course a la Gilmore.

It is not known what odds BetStars, one of Hendry’s main sponsors, would have given on Goodall pulling off the feat at the first attempt, but they would have been pretty high given he had not played a round of golf for almost a decade.

Mind, he did recently get some golfing tips from Ryder Cup player and multiple tournament winner Sergio Garcia.

At the time of going ‘to press’ it is not known whether Garcia showed Goodall how to play the shot.