![]() He's certainly put himself in contention with all those top-10s. But I think the one thing that has eluded him was just getting to the winner's circle probably a lot more times than he would have liked. "He was always a great player and very competitive. "He had such a great pedigree," Haack said of Harman. They probably didn't think he would finish 13 under and win the Claret Jug by 6 strokes, which tied for the second-largest margin of victory by an American golfer in the storied tournament's history. While Harman might have stunned the golf world by capturing the 151st Open Championship at Royal Liverpool Golf Club on Sunday, Haack, English and others who have known him since his junior golf and college days had been waiting for him to win something big. He found something to piss him off, and a pissed-off Brian Harman is nobody you want to mess with on the golf course." "I wish it had been on TV or someone had a video of it. "That was one of the best matches I've ever seen," said PGA Tour player Harris English, one of Harman's teammates at Georgia. Fowler missed his birdie attempt, and Harman sank his for a third straight birdie to win the match. Harman's ball landed 8 feet from the hole. On the 18th, Fowler hit his approach shot to about 30 feet. On the 17th, Harman made another birdie, while Fowler's try lipped out. "I'm about to whip his ass."īoth players made birdie putts outside 15 feet on the 16th hole. "That just fries me," Harman told Haack as he walked off the 15th green. ![]() When Harman looked up, he noticed that Fowler and Oklahoma State Cowboys coach Mike McGraw were already walking toward the 16th tee box, leaving him to walk back across the green to retrieve the pin. ![]() Harman had to make an 8-footer to remain 1 down in the match. On the 15th hole, Fowler two-putted for par. Harman, a senior and the Bulldogs' top player, was battling Rickie Fowler in a back-and-forth match that would decide which team would advance to the semifinals of the 2009 NCAA championship. HOYLAKE, England - More than a dozen years later, Georgia men's golf coach Chris Haack still remembers what Brian Harman said to him as he walked off the 15th hole at the Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio. The Open 2023: Brian Harman's victory was decades in the making You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser ![]()
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