Harry Higgs’ potentially big ‘bonus’ week in Mexico on PGA Tour

By Alex Myers
There are a lot of golf fans that probably don’t realise PGA Tour fan-favourite Harry Higgs isn’t on the PGA Tour anymore. The affable 30-year-old lost his tour card after a tough season in which he didn’t record a top-10 finish and missed 10 of his final 14 cuts following a T-14 at the Masters.

Despite his lack of status, though, Higgs is already making his fourth start of the young 2022-23 campaign thanks to sponsor exemptions and getting into events as an alternate. The autumn portion of the wrap-around season has its perks for some. And his latest “bonus” tournament might just wind up being the big break he needs.

Higgs shot the low round of the day on Friday at the World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba, a bogey-free 62 that put him in a tie for sixth entering the weekend at El Camaleon Golf Club.

“I had a very poor year by my standards and kind of fighting uphill for the entirety of this year,” Higgs told reporters at Mayakoba after his round. “This week is a bonus that World Wide Technologies gave me a sponsor exemption.”

So far, Higgs is certainly taking advantage of it. This is his first made cut of this season, even though it’s not his first low score. He opened last week’s Butterfield Bermuda Championship with a 64 before shooting a second-round 75 to miss the cut.

“I mean, all over the place,” Higgs said. “Like I have had a lot of poor days and a lot of consecutive poor days, and then I’ve also had not as many as I would like, but I’ve had some days that were great where I had full control, I was making good decisions, I was kind of, as we all say, getting out of my own way.”

Now that he’s got making it to the weekend out of the way, Higgs hopes to keep, as he calls it, “spiralling upwards”. But he knows he’s got a lot of work to do — especially if he wants to get his old job back.

“It’s only going to get more difficult now, right?” Higgs said. “Tomorrow, like I have a lot to — we all have a lot to play for, but I have a lot to play for.”

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