"They call him The Hawk. He's a golfer. The greatest golfer in the world!" That's the short yet sweet theme song to Netflix's new sports comedy series, The Hawk, and it sums up exactly what you're about to get. Lonnie "The Hawk" Hawkins (Will Ferrell) was a champion-level golfer during his prime, but after losing to his rival, Golden Fisk (Luke Wilson), he's never quite made it back. Meanwhile, his marriage to Stacy (Molly Shannon) is on the rocks, while his son, Lance (Jimmy Tatro), is a golf star on the rise. Despite it all, Lonnie believes his glory days aren't behind him, and after he recruits a new caddy, played by Fortune Feimster, he might have what it takes to stage the greatest comeback. Ahead of the show's release, Collider's Meredith Loftus sat down with Ferrell and Shannon to discuss the sports comedy. Ferrell explains how assembling the creative team and the cast gave him the confidence that The Hawk could be something great. As longtime collaborators, Shannon and Ferrell share how their dynamic has, in many ways, remained the same as it's been since their days on Saturday Night Live. Plus, the duo look back at Ferrell's previous athletic characters, like Blades of Glory's Chazz Michael Michaels, and determine where Lonnie ranks among them. You can watch the full interview above or read the transcript below. COLLIDER: If there was a mini-golf tournament with the cast, who do you think would win? WILL FERRELL: You know what? I don't know. We’ve never played mini-golf. I don't mean to disparage your talents as a mini-golfer. I feel like Fortune [Feimster] would be really good at putt-putt golf. I'll definitely have to ask and see if she's up to snuff. FERRELL: But I think Jimmy [Tatro] and Luke [Wilson], everyone would get really competitive. And I think Molly and I, we wouldn't care so much. Will, when did you know that The Hawk would be something special as you were developing it? What was the moment that clicked, like, "I think this could be something good?" FERRELL: I think when we assembled our creative team, and we were all on the same page, and with Netflix's blessing, we wanted to make it feel cinematic. We want to have it look lush and beautiful on the golf course. We know we're going to follow some sort of sports arc, but we want to have outlandish characters who are imperfect people, at their throats all the time. Once we started weaving in what that meant in terms of the individual arcs, and of course, the casting was a big part of filling that out, as well. Between Molly and Luke and Fortune and… FERRELL: That child again. That child was screaming earlier, and I had to admonish that child. I'm sorry about that. FERRELL: But to have a cast rounded out that way. So there are many different steps, and then you're filming it, and everyone brings it to life in a way that you didn't imagine. I think we were feeling like, "Oh, this could be really fun and feel different all at the same time." Especially for a sports comedy.