Hunter, fisherman, farmer, farmer and left hand right hand

The English tabloids are merciless Brian Harman when they met on Saturday afternoon who are now champions of British he likes to hunt. Some have called it that ‘Royal Liverpool Butcher’. However, Harman explains that he only hunts with a bow (and never shoots more than 40 yards) and that his family usually eats what is caught on their land.

At the champion’s press conference on Sunday afternoon and under a universal deluge, Brian, 36, admitted that he had just bought a yellow tractor and was looking forward to driving it to mow a good part of his 40 hectares of land.

Hunter, fisherman, farmer, farmer… And yet, when it rains, he doesn’t have a particularly good time on the golf course. “It’s been a tough day, really, with so much rain. I’ve never been a good player in the rain, it bothers me a lot, so I’m very proud of how I managed to hit the ball underwater,” said the British champion with the Jug on top of the interview table.

Leader Friday and Saturday, more than one did not give him credit, and the truth is that he has it and everything. He is one of those who grow in the face of adversity. If you want to scare him, it’s up to you to backfire, even if he doesn’t use a rifle. “On Saturday when I made the second bogey on hole 4, a fan yelled at me: you don’t have what it takes to win the Open. That gave me encouragement, motivation, it definitely helped me recover. If you really want me not to play well, you should be very nice to me,” he explained.

The golfer from Savannah (Georgia) assured that he always believed that he could achieve success like the British one but he also admitted that he also had his doubts. There are more and more young people who are very long and ready and of course sometimes you think that you will never win again, but I was very good when I was young, I won a lot, I was Number 1 amateur and I thought it would happen one day,” he said.

After winning the 151st Open Championship, he said that “a psychologist once told me that the things that waste your time are the things that matter most to you.” And the most important thing to him is hunting and putting putts. “The situation I’m experiencing is a bit surreal and I have always believed that I can do something like this but I admit that I still can’t assimilate it,” he admitted.

Hunting helped him develop his patience and strategy. Because, Brian says, it’s not just about firing a gun at an animal. Behind that, there is more. “My father used to take me hunting, but what he taught me at the age of eight was how to skin a deer. It’s all part of the hunt, from start to finish. I enjoyed it from start to finish. In the hunting area I have, we grow food for the animals, we make fire… Everything is made for the wildlife and, of course, we respect it, we take care of it and we feed our families with it”, Harman pointed out.

Patience is also important so as not to be affected by the comments of some fans. According to what was broadcast on the field, he also revealed when a fan approached him at a restaurant and asked him for a selfie: “I got excited,” he said.

Harman is the third left-hander in history to lift the Jug after the New Zealander Bob Charles (1963) and his compatriot Phil Mickelson (2013)and the fifth in majors history behind the Green Jackets Mike Weir and Bubba Watson.

Harman, as Mickelson and as Rafael Nadal They play right handed and left-handed. It is not that these are unique cases, but it is certainly unusual. Mickelson, a right-hander who started playing left-handed because of the mirror effect, would stand in front of his father and mimic the motion, but in reverse.

Lefty Harman has something to do with baseball. “Don’t ask me why but from a very young age, when I started playing baseball, I used to throw the ball with my right hand, but I hit with my left. I don’t even remember, my parents told me,” he said.

At the 1997 Phoenix Open at age 10, the first time he touched a golf club was to hit left-handed. “I don’t know why, but everything fit the first time, I saw it very naturally.” At the age of 11 he started playing golf seriously and achieved many notable successes early on. At the age of 14 he sat down with his father and they made a decision. Baseball was parked and they focused all their attention on golf.

He had a very good amateur career and his first professional victory was on a minor circuit in 2010 and his first victory on the PGA Tour came in 2014, at the John Deere Classic. Three years later, he would achieve his most significant victory, topping the 2017 Wells Fargo dustin johnson. Most important achievement so far after conquering Hoylake the Silver Jug.