The 36-year-old Georgian's comfortable — even casual — win at Royal Liverpool was an impressive display of years of hard work finally paying off.
A six-shot lead will do that, even to the most jittery soul. Harman, all 5-foot-7 of him, took cover and solace under a massive black umbrella as he walked through miserable conditions toward unbridled joy.
There was a reality, though, about the entire day. If he could handle that sleep and the circumstances, the field had no chance.“He had to come back to us, essentially,” said Jason Day, who joined Austria’s Sepp Straka, South Korea’s Tom Kim and Spain’s Jon Rahm in second place at 7 under. The throngs, if not cowering from the persistent showers, were elsewhere. The stragglers were there to harass Harman — “Don’t be nehr-voos, Brian lad!” — or support him: “Go, Dawgs!” But if the jeers outnumbered the verbal pats on the back — and they did — they were counterproductive.If there was a pivotal point in the round, it could be described that way only loosely. When Harman hit his tee shot at the par-5 fifth into a gorse bush, he faced both an unplayable lie and a penalty shot.
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