Brian Harman enjoyed a very good week at the RBC Heritage on Hilton Head Island this week.
Harman finished the PGA Tour signature event on 14-under par, three shots adrift of eventual winner Justin Thomas.
Harman was delighted that range-finders were allowed at the RBC Heritage, in a bid to improve the pace of play.
The irony in that sentence is palpable, but the 38-year-old from Georgia seemed oblivious to it!
Anyway, back to the golf, and Harman would have been delighted with his showing at Harbour Town Links.
His rounds of 66, 69, 66 and 69 were expertly put together.
And he may well have won the tournament, had he avoided two really costly mistakes on the back nine on Sunday.
Brian Harman says what happened during RBC Heritage final round ‘was just odd’
Harman has made 10 out of 12 cuts this season, and his third place finished at the RBC Heritage was only his second top-10 this year (PGA Tour).
In fairness to him, the other top-10 was a win at the Valero Texas Open two weeks ago.
So it must be said, 2025 has been kind to the left-hander so far.
Harman responded when asked how much he enjoyed the week on Hilton Head Island:
“Yeah, I enjoyed — as you get older, you certainly take those times in contention. You sit around a little bit longer and try and soak it in a little bit. Just missed a couple swings on the back nine. If I had four or five swings back over the tournament, I think I would have been right there. I did my best, but still short.
“This place is real special to me. It’s nice to play in front of so many friends and family, and everybody did a great job. Yeah, just wish I could have had a couple swings on that back nine.
“But I wouldn’t have done anything different. I felt really good over the ball. 14 was just odd, and then 15 was a nothing lay-up; I probably got little cute with it trying to get it down there to get a perfect number and should have been a little more focused on trying to get it into the right quadrant of that fairway.“
Brian Harman made baffling claim about his pace of play
The 38-year-old is well known as being one of the slowest players on the PGA Tour, if not the slowest.
However, he seemingly doesn’t see the problem.
Harman discussed the issue of slow play earlier in the week at Harbour Town:
“In a twosome, if you are a slow player, you can’t really hide. I would bet you everyone in a twosome plays faster than they do in a threesome anyway.
“It certainly helps [playing quicker] to get in a rhythm. If you’re standing around watching the group in front of you all day, it’s hard to — you have to find things to occupy your mind. I’ve played fine in threesomes, but I would prefer it, especially on the weekend, to be in twosomes.”
His lack of self awareness there was truly astounding.
The worrying thing is that if he really doesn’t realise how slow he is, he will never improve in that regard.
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