It’s his first start at a PGA Tour event that’s not a major championship — (he also played in the 2021 PGA Championship — but his third win in his last five starts worldwide.
With just three holes to go, Chesson Hadley led Higgo by three strokes but finished bogey-bogey-bogey and stumbled across the finish line to hand Higgo the victory.
“I can only imagine what it looked like on TV because it looked freaking awful from my view.
His loss is Higgo’s gain, though, and the 22-year-old South African earned it with a 32 on the back nine on Sunday that included an eagle at the par-5 12th hole.
He’s been flushing it for a while, too, winning the Canary Islands Championship and Gran Canaria Lopesan Open on the European Tour over the last two months before coming stateside to play in the PGA at Kiawah where he finished T64.
He spent some time in college at UNLV, where his best finish in a tournament in his first year was fifth.
That’s an amazing skill to have and one that won him a trophy in his very first start on the best tour in the world.
He came into the week 500-1 to win and needed to play the last 195 yards on the 72nd hole in three strokes.
1 player in the world all over him in Round 3, and he missed finishing in the top 10 and getting into the Travelers Championship the week after the U.S.
Brooks Koepka : Koepka actually did not hit it that poorly but he putted horrifically, which is a sentence that could have been written about his final tune-up before the PGA Championship as well.
It’s just, like I said, maybe a little lack of focus and maybe — these weeks before the majors, I start thinking about next week instead of where I’m at.
Higgo just made an eagle and another birdie to get to -11, two back of Hadley and one back of Van Pelt.