Harry Higgs swears he’s been working hard in the weight room, putting on necessary muscle as he still looks to secure his first-ever PGA Tour title.
After firing a second-round 66 on Friday in the Oneflight Myrtle Beach Classic, this week’s PGA Tour opposite-field event, Higgs is tied for the lead alongside Danny Walker. He was asked after his round about a recent comment he made about potentially dunking a basketball, which is a bet he has with his trainer.
If Higgs can finally get into a PGA Tour winner’s circle, maybe the sky’s the limit, right?
“I am of the belief that I and anybody, you can train yourself to do anything. I think somebody brought up marathon. I think a marathon would be easier, and I know looking at me, that sounds ridiculous,” Higgs said. “I have been getting stronger in the gym, more explosive to hit the ball further, and I have started to hit it further, which is great. I said it in passing. It’s not a couple years. I said I think I could do it within a decade.
“Now, I’m 33. I understand that the decade is going to be a little short. If I were to do it, which I’m never going to, I think I have, like, two to four years of — probably two years of straight training. I think it would be possible.”
What would a win mean to Harry Higgs?
A win for Higgs would mean a two-year PGA Tour exemption. The icing on the cake would be a spot in next week’s PGA Championship. There are potentially two spots left in the PGA for the winners of the Myrtle Beach Classic as well as the Truist Championship, should those winners already not be in the field.
For Higgs, he fought his way back to the PGA Tour after finishing in the top 30 on the Korn Ferry Tour in 2024, but in 2025, he’s missed seven cuts – including three in a row – in 12 outings. Perhaps this is the week he breaks through to earn his first PGA Tour win.
Higgs was in the early wave on a day when the start times were delayed 1 hour, 40 minutes, and first-round leader Mackenzie Hughes is among those who have yet to start their second rounds.
Fellow clubhouse co-leader Danny Walker is also not in the PGA field, so a Myrtle Beach win would be quite a get for him, too.
But for Higgs, this is a big deal. He’s been reflecting on why he’s yet to hoist a Tour trophy despite 133 starts, and although he hasn’t seen results, he feels his window of good golf is rapidly approaching.
“You think about everything, right? Why is it not working for me? I’ve struggled before, and this is different. This is like, wait a second, I’m doing things like really pretty well in comparison to when I was struggling maybe a couple of years ago, two, three years ago. So that’s probably almost harder knowing that I have quote, unquote, a lot of arrows in my quiver right now, but I’m not picking any of the right ones. Three years ago there might have been a lone arrow. That was it,” Higgs said. “It’s difficult. You think about everything. You think about how can I continue to get better? Am I doing the right things? Do I need to do more of them? Do I need to do less of them? Do I need to do better mentally? Do I need to do — well, you always need to do better mentally. Do I need to be nicer to myself?
“I tried to just continue to give myself some grace that’s, like, this is a long year, this has been kind of garbage to this point, but it really didn’t feel like it. Eventually, it was going to not be garbage.
“I hope it’s this week, and if not, I think I’m really going to start playing some good golf, hopefully for a little longer. I think I’m going to have my run hopefully this week and soon-ish.”
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