“Yeah, I hear quite a lot of ‘Ricky, Rickys’ on the market. Yeah, I seem like him — good-looking fella,” Harman mentioned throughout his post-round information convention.
“The previous Australia cricket captain Ricky Ponting. The chief of The Open Brian Harman,” The Open tweeted on Saturday.
The Twitterati additionally got here up with their very own variations to attract the similarities between Harman and Ponting.
Harman received the British Open by six pictures on Sunday, claiming his first main title at a rainswept Hoylake. He held a five-shot lead in a single day and recovered from a shaky begin to cruise to victory on 13 underneath par with a one-under ultimate spherical of 70.
Harman’s chic placing was the important thing to his success all week and he nailed an enormous 40-foot birdie putt at 14 earlier than one other birdie with a 4 on the par-five 15th set the seal on a remarkably composed efficiency.