While bigger hitters clobbered their way down the Hoylake fairways, it was the touch and the finesse of Harman around the greens that put him in control, even if he is eager to receive more recognition for his long game. With a gallery heavy on Tommy Fleetwood fans counting on a miscue, Harman flourished to clinch his first victory since the 2017 Wells Fargo Championship, where he edged out Dustin Johnson and Pat Perez by one shot with a decisive 28-foot putt on the final hole. Unlike his commanding week at Hoylake, pole position hasn't always fared kindly for Harman: in 2015 he relinquished a 54-hole lead at the Travelers Championship to finish third behind winner Bubba Watson, and in 2017 had led by one stroke after 54 holes at the US Open only to finish four adrift of champion Brooks Koepka. Harman became the third PGA Tour player in history to record two holes-in-one in the same round at the 2015 Barclays. A new and burning love for golf would supersede his baseball roots as Harman found a sense of belonging out on the course. It wasn't until 1997 that Harman became enamoured by the sport in which he would later become a champion, a day at home from school allowing him to watch on as Tiger Woods holed his historic ace at the Phoenix Open to prompt roars that echoed beyond the walls of TPC Scottsdale. Growing up, Harman's childhood house was situated on Southbridge golf club in Savannah, Georgia, where he lived with his dentist father and chemist mother, neither of whom carried much of an interest in life on the fairways. "I was just taking a shower this morning thinking 'you can't win an Open Championship in the shower, don't think about it, left foot, right foot, let's get it done'." How did he get here? "It's hard to get way ahead of yourself, couple days in a row where I could have let it get sideways and I didn't. "I doubled down on this process, I know it's boring and not flashy but until I hit that last bunker shot I didn't think about winning this tournament. "Better late than never, I've thought about this my entire life," Harman told Sky Sports. Highlights from the final round of the 151st The Open championship from the Royal Liverpool Golf Club.
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