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The Open 2023 - Brian Harman's victory was decades in the making

HOYLAKE, England -- More than a dozen years later, Georgia men's golf coach Chris Haack still remembers what Brian Harman said to him as he walked off the 15th hole at the Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio.

Harman, a senior and the Bulldogs' top player, was battling Rickie Fowler in a back-and-forth match that would decide which team would advance to the semifinals of the 2009 NCAA championship.

On the 15th hole, Fowler two-putted for par. Harman had to make an eight-footer to remain 1 down in the match. He drained the putt.