“We moved to Kansas City when I was 10, and I really wasn’t like that into golf just quite yet,” Higgs recalled. One of his teammates was the PGA’s Bryson DeChambeau. Higgs graduated from Blue Valley North High School in Overland Park in 2010, and went on to play collegiately at Southern Methodist University. While he was in fifth grade, the family moved yet again – this time to the Kansas City area. Go down to the shore in the summer, run around with all my cousins and aunts and uncles.”Ī SUCCESSFUL TEAMING WITH HIS BROTHER/CADDIE “A Philly fan is just a little bit different, and I guess even as a young kid, leaving but still following Philadelphia sports, that kind of tied me back to the region, and we would get back and see family every now and again. “Mom and Dad were from here, obviously, and then all aunts and uncles are in the area or have stayed in the area,” Higgs said. He attended elementary school, grades two through four, in Malvern, and it was when he developed a life-long love for Philadelphia teams, specifically the Eagles. It was closer to most of his extended family. “We lived just across the river just outside of Philadelphia,” Higgs says to the uninitiated. But when Harry was seven, and his younger brother Alex was three, they all moved to Malvern. The family also spent a couple years in Columbus, Ohio. His parents, Mike and Denise Higgs, lived in Somerdale, N.J., at the time. Some guys are just so wildly disappointed if I take a second to (say), no, man, it was just where the hospital was.” “Sure enough, the darn thing says Camden, New Jersey. I filled out my (PGA) bio eight years ago, in 2014. “I was just born (in Camden),” Higgs explained. The first seems to garner the most interest as it is the kind of urban center that rarely has a connection to the world’s top golf tour. But his PGA Tour bio says he was born in Camden, N.J., that his hometown is Overland, Kan., and that he resides in Dallas. Higgs spent a chunk of his formative years living in Malvern. “I’m fortunate that I’m being recognized for just being myself,” Higgs said via teleconference during Media Day for the upcoming BMW Championship in Wilmington. He is, officially, 6-2, 235 – but that last number may be a bit generous. And he’s unwittingly tapped into the role of an everyman, even though only a select few are good enough to turn playing golf into a career. He has an outgoing personality that is wildly popular because it is both refreshing and authentic. In the often staid setting of the PGA Tour, Higgs is the unabashed life of the party. There’s a lot of what we call a 5-9, 165. “Also I look quite a bit different than most everybody else. “I never thought that this would kind of take off in the way that it has. “You have some success and then just kind of have some fun out there with either the players or, every now and again, with the fans,” Higgs said later.
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