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Brian Harman wants to go back to living in the country. His campaign. The one in Georgia where he can’t wait to drive a brand new orange Kubota. For the uninitiated, Brian Harman is the winner of The Open Championship, fourth Major 2023, and the Kubota is a tractor.
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After making golf history by winning the most prestigious competition on the face of the earth, the 36-year-old from Savannah already has clear ideas about his near future.
A few days in New York with his wife Kelly Van Slyke, their children Copper Marie, Walter and Jack and then he ran home where there were about forty hectares of countryside with tall grass waiting for him. “A few weeks ago I made an important purchase, a new tractor.
I haven’t even told my wife the price but now it’s time to use it” the confession from Champion Golfer of The Year.Passionate about hunting (as evidenced by his social networks), the Liverpool winner does not hide his intention to leave his cell phone off for a few days.
To those who, at the press conference, pointed out that they had never seen an Open Champion on board a tractor, Brian replied seraphicly: “I’m a player with many layers, I’m onion”.Vegetables aside, after five seasonal top tens Harman swept The Open Championship 2023, finishing in Hoylake with a clear -13, six shots less than Straka (Ryder Cup air for the Austrian), Kim, Day and Rahm.
His numbers are on his side, just think that on the Liverpool course he pocketed 58 out of 59 putts within three metres, ending up in a bunker only twice in four days of competition.”I never thought about winning except in the last holes on Sunday, in the rain” is his admission.
Hard not to believe him, just as hard not to believe when he recounts an episode that happened on the moving day. After two bogeys, with McIlroy and Fleetwood on the way up, a spectator yelled “You don’t have the balls to keep going” in his face.
Instead, the American had the attributes and how. “That phrase helped me. ‘I’m good enough to do this’ I thought to myself and started playing well again.”Tractor aside, the American touches the sky with a finger. The third success as a professional (he hadn’t won for 2,258 days, i.e.
since the 2017 Wells Fargo Championship) catapulted him from 26th to tenth place in the world rankings, in full swing for a place at the Ryder Cup in Rome. His life will also change thanks to the three million dollars in prize money (out of a total of 16.5 million) collected.However, tractors must be a passion for those who win The Open Championship.
It was the year 2010 when Louis Oosthuizen established himself in Saint Andrews. The South African, 27 years old at the time, admitted that he had in mind how to invest that nest egg. “I have always liked the countryside and will be buying a tractor for my farm in South Africa. In this case it was a John Deere, which he later called “the Ferrari of tractors”.
