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And he knows … ummm … that he drove his lines home in the flick.

“Yeah … I’m a bona fide movie star,” said the 65-year-old Pavin, with a chuckle. “I had to pay a lot of money to get into it.

“But my parts in both movies, if you blinked, you missed them.”

Pavin’s role this week is as one of 78 protagonists trying to win the PGA Tour Champions’ Rogers Charity Classic, starting Friday and running through Sunday at Canyon Meadows Golf and Country Club.

But this isn’t make-believe stuff like it was in Happy Gilmo

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