Harris English claimed his fifth PGA Tour victory, winning the 2025 Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines in San Diego by a single stroke. English navigated the challenging course conditions with a final round 1-over 73, beating out Sam Stevens. Andrew Novak put up a strong challenge but ultimately fell short.
Harris English first flirted with fame at the Farmers Insurance Open a decade ago when he shared the third-round lead and was part of a four-man playoff for the 2015 championship. Jason Day came away the winner that year at Torrey Pines, but English was encouraged, not discouraged. “It’s one of my favorite places,” he said. “And the list of winners here is pretty incredible.
” The tournament’s former champions include some of the game’s biggest names: Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Jon Rahm and Day, among them. The 35-year-old Georgia native’s patience and perseverance, perhaps some of it gleaned from that now long ago tour of Torrey, paid off in Saturday’s final round with a 1-over 73 for a one-stroke victory over Sam Stevens. “I knew it was going to be a tough day today,” English said of a final round in which only 12 of 70 players broke par. “I love that. I love this golf course when it plays really tough. I knew with the wind you’re probably not going to get somebody … coming up and throwing a 65, 66 out there today. How tough was Torrey in the tournament? English’s 8-under score of 280 was the second-highest winning total since the South Course redesign in 2001. Only Brandt Snedeker’s 6-under 282 in 2016 was higher. English also was the first winner to shoot over par in the final round since John Daly carded a 3-over 75 on the way to the 2004 title. On a day when the wind picked up (gusting to 24 mph), the temperature dropped (ranging from 54-60 degrees) and clouds threatened to soak the spectators, English did what he had to do for his fifth tour victory, which came with a $1.67 million paycheck. He played with the ease and quiet confidence of someone who had been here before and was in no rush to reach the finish. The final group played the front nine in three hours (where’s a marshal when you need one?) before picking up the pace in a 5 1/2-hour round. That gave English time to wave to the crowd after putting out for par on 18, kiss his wife and 18-month-old daughter, accept the winner’s check, trophy and surfboard — and still have time to see the sunset. “I guess being out here (on tour) for 14 years now, that’s kind of what I’ve learned is you don’t have to play perfect golf,” English said. “That’s playing this golf course years and years and having a lot of experience, I kind of know where to miss it, and I’ve had a lot of those same shots before or same chips or same putts. You kind of build those in the memory bank and relive some of those good putts and good chips that you’ve hit.” Andrew Novak, an eight-year pro still looking for his first tour win, was English’s closest competitor much of the round, starting the day a stroke off the lead. The 29-year-old North Carolinian had his ups and downs with four birdies and four bogies on the front nine. “It was just a roller coaster,” said Novak, who shared the lead with English at 8 under when they made the turn. A bogey at the 10th dropped Novak a stroke behind again. Another bogey at 15 but him two shots back. Too much, as it turned out. “Definitely positives to take from this week, even though it’s not the win that I wanted,” Novak said in consolation. Stevens began the day six strokes off the lead. He climbed onto the leaderboard with four birdies over his first nine holes on the way to the day’s lowest round, a 4-under 68. “When I got up to the 8th green there was a big leaderboard there and I looked and I saw that Harris was either even or 1 over at that point and the lead was at 8 under, so I was only a couple back,” Stevens said. “I was like all right, now we’re in this thing.” Stevens got within a stroke of English on the back nine and made a bid for the lead when he went for the green on his second shot of the 547-yard, par-5 18th hole. Stevens’ shot hit the bank in front of the green and rolled back into the water. Somehow he saved par, then bided his time near the putting green, waiting for a potential playoff that never came as English played his final five holes. Sungjae Im also made a go out of it with a 1-under 71. He got within two strokes of the lead with back-to-back birdies to begin the back nine, but failed to get putts to fall and move closer. Im finished tied for fourth with Kris Ventura (71) at 5 under
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