Is there a topic Harry Higgs is afraid of? If so, we’ve yet to uncover it.
While chatting with Higgs, who lost his PGA Tour card last year but has played in a number of events already during the season on sponsor exemptions, we pitched the idea of him taking over a new TV station devoted solely to golf. All Harry, all the time. He wasn’t averse to the concept.
Higgs will appear on Golf Channel during the second Tito’s Shorties Classic at Butler Pitch and Putt in downtown Austin, Texas, on Jan. 11. Close buddy Keith Mitchell was also part of the fun, along with Joel Dahmen and Beau Hossler.
And while the former TCU star and current Dallas-area resident was happy with the content the hit-and-giggle provided, he’s got grander plans for the game’s broadcast side, and some worries that understandably are bubbling as the game’s most marketable personality (Tiger Woods) continues to drift off slowly into the sunset.
The elevator pitch: The Tiger Woods hangover
Netflix cameraman Dan Wilson follows Harry Higgs as walks through the tunnel to the tee of the par-3 16th hole during the third round of the 2022 WM Phoenix Open. (Photo: Allan Henry-USA TODAY Sports)
Golfweek: If you were to run a golf television network, and come on, you know you’d be great at this, what should be done? Give me your two-minute elevator pitch.
Harry Higgs: I don’t know if I’d be great at it. And, just simply because I get to see about 75 to 80 percent of what goes into covering golf, right, whether that’s print or television, I know that I do not have a great understanding of the other, we’ll call it 25 percent and that 25 percent is probably the most vital.
I read plenty of golf coverage, right? From every one of the people on your staff to many others.
But I think it’s part of the kind of Tiger Woods hangover, if we take it in a very, very, 30-thousand-foot view, where really no one had to be any good at their jobs.
And I’m not saying that people weren’t, because they were,…
