Harry Higgs is hoping to publish his first PGA Tour victory this week.

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Harry Higgs’ enjoyable persona has been successful hearts on the PGA Tour for nicely over two years.

First, he broke the web together with his tackle the viral “Goals Problem.” Then he stripped off his shirt on the sixteenth inexperienced on the WM Phoenix Open. His wit and candor have earned him a legion of followers, and his uncooked, reflective honesty about his latest struggles made him much more relatable.

That’s why, particularly these days, when Higgs speaks, we pay attention. And his post-round feedback at this week’s RSM Basic, the place he shares the 36-hole lead with Cole Hammer and Andrew Putnam, had been no exception.

Higgs gamely elaborated on various subjects, together with his gratitude for fellow professional Keith Mitchell, whom he credit with getting him in to the World Large Know-how Championship in Mexico, which Higgs pegs as the beginning of his sport’s renaissance.

“Really, a buddy like that reaching out, getting me into that occasion, I really feel prefer it’s actually near having modified my profession,” Higgs mentioned. “Simply what I discovered there about myself, what I put into play, how I executed it has led me to now this level via two days. Hopefully you quick ahead one other couple days and it’s a win that clearly adjustments my life and my profession.”

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After firing a spherical of seven-under 63 on Friday, Higgs is in the same place to what he skilled a couple of weeks in the past: low second spherical, within the hunt, with two rounds left to play.

In Mexico, Higgs adopted a 62 with 69 and 71 to complete T32. What did he find out about the way to comply with up a low spherical? Loads, because it seems.

“I assumed I did a very good job in Mexico,” Higgs mentioned. “I had a pair — Saturday and Sunday I had a pair mud balls after which simply didn’t fairly get as snug as I used to be even Thursday and Friday on a couple of tee photographs. However I actually felt like I dealt with it nicely. I didn’t begin, as I’ve talked earlier than, sort of crying and whining that issues aren’t going my method and I’m hitting poor photographs. Nobody cares if you happen to’re hitting poor photographs actually aside from me, my household and my brother who’s my caddie, proper? There’s no want to only scream and yell and be audible with it. You possibly can hit poor photographs, it’s OK.”

In response to Higgs, his essential takeaway was the significance of being affected person, and resisting the urge to push or pace up.

“I did an excellent job of being affected person,” he mentioned. “I didn’t do an superior job all through the weekend on each shot, which you’re by no means most likely going to do it on each shot of getting snug and principally simply telling myself that is what I need to have occur. So in that, that might be the objective for the following two days. Keep affected person, for positive, which at all times will get more durable and more durable and more durable.

“The higher you do, the more durable it’s,” he continued. “I felt like I used to be getting a little bit impatient to complete out the again 9 at the moment even, however keep affected person after which simply go forward and take — I don’t need to take too lengthy, however take simply one other little half second. OK, that is what I’m going to make this golf ball do. So once more, within the long-winded method that I like to explain issues, that might be what I discovered and what I’ll take into the following couple days.”

Tour professionals: What works for them can work for us leisure gamers too.

You possibly can watch Higgs within the third spherical beginning at 1 p.m. ET on Golf Channel.

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