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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHarry Higgs celebrates after a birdie on the 11th hole during the second round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, N.Y., Friday, June 19, 2026.(AP Photo\/Seth Wenig)<\/p>\n
\u201cI let the day build and build and build, and man, I felt like a rock star out there,\u201d Higgs said Friday. \u201cI felt like I could do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
Higgs shot a 2-under 68 in the second round, boosted by a 75-foot putt for birdie after missing the 11th green, the kind of bad miss that for so long caused him to spiral. Higgs acknowledged that his tee shot was \u201cthe worst place you can hit it\u201d but said he only had about a \u201c3 out of 10 freakout.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat would have been, hell, even a week ago, that probably would have been an 8, 9, 10 out of 10 freakout that I would have blamed something or someone else,\u201d Higgs said.<\/p>\n
Not this week. Higgs told himself he was going to stop berating himself and play like he belonged. He goes into the weekend at 1 under, six shots behind leader Wyndham Clark.<\/p>\n
\u201cAgain, there\u2019s a lot of golf left, but I can just choose to be a factor,\u201d Higgs said. \u201cIf the golf goes my way and the result goes my way, great, but I can choose to just, like, \u2018Hey, you don\u2019t have to be a small, insignificant piece of the 156 that was playing here,\u2019 even though I think I was 156 of 156.\u201d<\/p>\n
Higgs has seen the highs of golf, with a tie for fourth in the 2021 PGA Championship and a top-15 finish a year later at the Masters. But he was having trouble dealing with the lows, and lately there have been many of them as he plays on the Korn Ferry Tour, missing the cut in all six of his PGA Tour starts.<\/p>\n
He was ready to give it up while playing in a U.S. Open qualifier on June 8. He thought he was out of it early and this time perhaps never coming back.<\/p>\n
\u201cThrough six holes in the 36-hole day, I was really close to quitting golf,\u201d Higgs said. \u201cIt went the same way as it\u2019s always gone. I missed a bunch of putts from short range early for birdie and then made a terrible bogey on 6. Took my phone out, booked a flight back home to Kansas City from Charlotte.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were playing just outside Charlotte and was, like, I\u2019m just going to go home. I\u2019m going to walk off after the ninth hole. I\u2019m just going to go home. I don\u2019t even know if I\u2019m going to go to Amarillo and play the Korn Ferry, and I don\u2019t know that I\u2019m going to keep doing this.\u201d<\/p>\n
He stuck around and played well over the final 27 holes. It wasn\u2019t good enough to qualify, but he did secure one of the alternate spots. When Bud Cauley won the Canadian Open last weekend and became automatically into the field, Higgs got his spot, getting the official call when he was preparing to fly from Texas.<\/p>\n
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