English Records Top 20 Finish at Humana

Harris English recorded his first career top 20 finish on tour at The Humana Challenge

Harris English used a second round 62 to propel him to his first career top 20 finish on the PGA Tour at The Humana Challenge in La Quinta, CA.  Playing in just his second PGA Tour event, Harris posted a four round total of 16 under par to finish tied for 19th.   The 19th place finish earned English $72, 800 and puts him at 46th on the money list at $84,075, after the first two events of the year.

Harris was followed by fellow Bulldogs, Brendon Todd who finished tied for 26th at 14 under par, Erik Compton and Chris Kirk both tied for 42nd at 11 under, Brian Harman tied for 54th at 9 under and Kevin Kisner tied for 64th at 7 under.

The PGA Tour will make a stop in La Jolla, CA this week for the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines and the field will include 8 former Bulldogs.  Bubba Watson, who is the defending champion at the Farmers, will join the 7 Bulldogs who played in the Humana Challenge this past week.

Harris English has also received a sponsors exemption into the Waste Management Phoenix Open, the event following this week's Farmers Insurance Open.

PGATour.com Article on Bubba Watson

The following article was featured on PGATour.com's, The Tour Report

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — He may have won the Farmers Insurance Open on Sunday, but it’s been business as usual for Bubba Watson this week.

After the trophy ceremony and a steady progression of interviews, Watson packed up the car and embarked on the five-and-a-half-hour drive from San Diego to Scottsdale. He and his wife Angie have a home here, which they are sharing this week with Rickie Fowler.

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Watson spent Monday at Ping headquarters in Phoenix. He hit balls on the range there, checked out some of his sponsor’s new products and re-gripped his putter. On Tuesday, Watson and his caddie played 18 holes with some of his friends at the Estancia Club on the northern slopes of Pinnacle Peak.

And then Watson got up on Wednesday and went to TPC Scottsdale for the first time all week only to find the pro-am canceled. Not to worry, though. Watson is just glad to be home.

"Just doing the same thing I’ve always done, don’t change it up," he said. "I’ll usually take Monday and Tuesday just for myself when I come to this tournament just to hang out and hang with my wife, and Rickie Fowler is staying at my house, so we goofed around with him a little bit. So just treating it like every day.  I missed the cut at Bob Hope and then won the next week. Life goes on, you know.

"But yeah, it’s been a lot of calls, a lot of fun stuff, a lot of opportunities out there. But just trying to take it easy and be the same old Bubba from Bagdad."

Much was made Sunday of the normally hyper Watson’s calm demeanor on the course and the way he stayed strong with the likes of Phil Mickelson, among others, chasing him. But the 32-year-old doesn’t see his second PGA TOUR victory as any kind of validation.

"The truth is I don’t see my life or my career based on how many wins I get," Watson said. "The media puts that role on you. I do it for a living.  I love the game of golf.  I’m playing golf all the time. I hate taking a day off. …

"So for me to win my second time, first time or never, it wasn’t going to make me a better person or a worse person. It’s fun to win. My trophy case has two in there now, two big ones in there now. So yeah, it’s going to be great. It fills it up. I’ve got one more than my wife now with all her club championship trophies.

“It’s great to win, it’s great to win again. That’s my goal every week is to win. Now hopefully win this week and win next week and win the week after, just keep winning, but that’s not going to make me a better person or a worse person if I don’t win."