SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — How can you not love a guy who showed up to play in the U.S. Open without his pants?
We’ll get to that story in a moment, but first, let’s introduce Harry Higgs. He looks a whole lot more like he belongs in the gallery crushing beers than inside the ropes crushing drives, and that’s most definitely a compliment. He plays with his shirt too unbuttoned, and maybe his psyche too. He’s 34 years old, he’s the 356th-ranked player in the world, he has exactly zero PGA Tour wins, and before this weekend, his record in the U.S. Open was one appearance, one missed cut.
Yet now, sitting at 1-under entering Round 3, in a tie with Justin Thomas for seventh, and a stroke ahead of Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler, Higgs is having his moment.
He’s maybe best known, virally speaking, for his take on the “Dreams Challenge” back in 2020 — you remember, cruising without a care in the world to the tune of Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams”:
Turns out, though, Higgs was carrying a whole lot of pain, a whole lot of self-loathing. As talented as he was — he played college golf alongside Bryson DeChambeau at SMU — he’s tended to stomp on the sparks of his own game before it can even get started.
We’ll get to that story in a moment, but first, let’s introduce Harry Higgs. He looks a whole lot more like he belongs in the gallery crushing beers than inside the ropes crushing drives, and that’s most definitely a compliment. He plays with his shirt too unbuttoned, and maybe his psyche too. He’s 34 years old, he’s the 356th-ranked player in the world, he has exactly zero PGA Tour wins, and before this weekend, his record in the U.S. Open was one appearance, one missed cut.
Yet now, sitting at 1-under entering Round 3, in a tie with Justin Thomas for seventh, and a stroke ahead of Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler, Higgs is having his moment.
He’s maybe best known, virally speaking, for his take on the “Dreams Challenge” back in 2020 — you remember, cruising without a care in the world to the tune of Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams”:
Turns out, though, Higgs was carrying a whole lot of pain, a whole lot of self-loathing. As talented as he was — he played college golf alongside Bryson DeChambeau at SMU — he’s tended to stomp on the sparks of his own game before it can even get started.
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