Having already tackled youth soccer in “Kicking & Screaming,” NASCAR in “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” figure skating in “Blades of Glory,” and minor-league basketball in “Semi-Pro,” Will Ferrell now brings that same inflated-athlete mythology to the golf course. Ferrell’s “The Hawk” is a new Netflix comedy series that has unveiled its first teaser, first-look photos, and summer premiere date.
Ferrell stars as Lonnie “The Hawk” Hawkins, a onetime golf legend and 2004’s number one golfer, now fighting the back nine of his career. His body is telling him to retire, his family thinks he is done, and the sport has moved on. Lonnie, naturally, sees it differently. With one more major left to win in order to complete golf’s Grand Slam, he believes he is still one stroke away from the greatest comeback in golf history.
The teaser introduces Lonnie as a man very much committed to the bit of himself. “In golf, there is a saying: play it as it lies,” Hawkins says, which seems to apply whether the ball lands in a sand trap, trouble finds him on the course, or his personal life keeps slicing into the rough.
The series marks Ferrell’s first television comedy, and he also created and executive-produced the show. Jessica Elbaum and Alix Taylor executive produce for Gloria Sanchez Productions, alongside Rian Johnson, Ram Bergman, and Nena Rodrigue for T-Street, as well as Chris Henchy, Harper Steele, David Gordon Green, and Andrew Guest. The PGA TOUR is also a partner on the series.
The supporting cast leans hard into the absurd ecosystem around Lonnie’s comeback. Molly Shannon plays Stacy, Lonnie’s estranged wife; Jimmy Tatro plays Lance, his son and a pro golfer in his own right; Fortune Feimster plays Sam, Lonnie’s new caddie; Luke Wilson plays Golden Fisk, a rival golfer who has beaten Lonnie twice; Chris Parnell plays Anton, a PGA TOUR board member; Katelyn Tarver plays Natalie, Lance’s social-media influencer fiancée; David Hornsby plays Radford, Stacy’s new boyfriend; Gabriel Hogan plays Jerry; and Aida Osman plays Crystal.
Sports comedy has always been a good arena for Ferrell’s particular gift for delusion: men with absolute (unearned) confidence, questionable dignity, and an absurd belief in their own comeback story. And “The Hawk” looks like it will continue in that grand comedy tradition.
“The Hawk” premieres on Netflix on July 16, 2026. Watch the trailer below.
