Open champion Brian Harman shares plans to have fun after profitable £2.3m prize

Brian Harman will have fun profitable the 151st Open Championship at Royal Liverpool in an uncommon trend – by mowing his garden. The 36-year-old American was too sizzling to deal with for the remainder of the sphere across the Hoylake hyperlinks course, performing greatest within the moist situations to win by six strokes at 13 below par.

He was certainly not the gang favorite, with Tommy Fleetwood and Rory McIlroy in sizzling pursuit in addition to world quantity three Jon Rahm, however attempt as they could, nobody might match Harman’s consistency in what ultimately turned a straightforward win.

After receiving the Claret Jug on the 18th inexperienced, the southern boy from Georgia, who loves searching and fishing, was requested how he could be celebrating his maiden main triumph.

Harman mentioned: “I had a nice week a couple weeks ago and I bought a new tractor for my hunting place, so I’ll get home and I’ll be on the tractor mowing grass in the next few weeks, so I’m excited about that.

“That will be my reward – just put my phone away and go get on the tractor. I haven’t seen it yet. It’s on order. It’s a 105 horse Kubota tractor and it’s going to be a pretty one. It is orange. It is probably 40 acres total that needs to get mowed.”

As Open Champion, Harman leaves the Wirral peninsula £2.3m richer, however regardless of his bumper payday, he was not ready to disclose the price of his new tractor.

“I haven’t told my wife how much I spent on it yet,” he mentioned.

The American had no household in attendance on Merseyside to observe him turn into the champion golfer. His spouse Kelly and kids Cooper, Walter and Jack had all remained in New York State, whereas his mother and father Eric and Nancy are presently on a lobster journey within the Keys.

Harman will likely be reunited together with his household on Monday, when he’ll have the ability to take pleasure in his favorite previous occasions away from the golf course.

He mentioned: “I’ve got to thank my wife and family back home; I sure miss them and can’t wait to see them. My family is up at a lake house in upstate New York, so I’m going to get there tomorrow evening and I’ll spend three days with them, and we’ll do some fishing and I’ll get to spend some good family time.

“First I’m going to have me a few pints out of this right here trophy. It will likely be Guinness.”