Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.
A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.
So I'm not really quite sure what Landis' plans were to make another one. The American Werewolf in Paris was a completely separate story.