Get to know Harris English | Every Tuesday | PGA TOUR Studios

Two-time PGA TOUR Champion Matt Every spent some time on the course with 2025 Farmers Insurance Open champion and United States Ryder Cup team member Harris English to talk about his season, how he prepares for a tournament, and the excitement he’s feeling ahead of the matches at Bethpage Black.

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How hard is it to win on the PGA Tour? It’s hard. Guys go their whole career without lifting a trophy over their heads. Others can do it multiple times. Our guest today, fivetime PGA Tour winner and two-time RDER Cup team member, good buddy of mine, Harris English, gives us a peak behind the curtains at his prep every Tuesday. Welcome to Every Tuesday, Harris, my man. Great to see you. Thanks for doing this, Justin. Thanks for coming in. Thank you. This is a pretty normal thing for you, right? Nine holes on a Tuesday, maybe a little practice after. Yeah, I like playing early on a Tuesday. Since we have switched the nine-hole prom on on Wednesday, I just play whatever nine that I’m not going to play on Wednesday and and get familiar with the the course again cuz I mean, this is my 14th year out here. So, sure. played a lot of these courses before and kind of get a refresher and and I like to play early and then work on my game after and and take it easy in the afternoon. This is an interesting week. I mean, it’s kind of a RDER Cup prep week, if you will, everyone on the team’s here. What are what are you guys looking to get out of this week? Is this a a bonding experience or you trying to win this golf tournament? A little of both. I mean, when that gun goes off on Thursday, you’re you’re still playing in a golf tournament. You’re you’re trying to win. Yeah. But for us outside of the golf, we’re going to be hanging out a lot with each other at night, going to some dinners, and using it as a binding week of of getting everything kind of ready to go for betage. So when we we show up, we know what we’re doing, we kind of know when we’re going to tee off and and everything will be pretty seamless when we get up there. Let’s see it. So, I’ve never really properly used Trackman or any of the other devices, but I I feel like I’ve gotten a pretty good system to to keep me engaged. Like preJ Justin Parsons, you didn’t use Trackman. No. You know, you didn’t particularly enjoy hitting golf shots without very very specific targets out in front of him. But I think you know what what we’ve noticed with Harris has been a very consistent putter over the years. Always goes through his pre-shot routine really well on the greens. What the performance center has done well from in the Trackman system is it’s it’s asking him to hit a certain type of shot. He’s having to figure out it’s coolish out here this afternoon a little bit into the wind. He has to go through the process of coming up with what number he wants to hit it. He’ll almost pretty much go through a full pre-shot routine. Execute the shot. The device will give him a a little strokes gain mark and then he’ll progress to the next shot. What it’s done really well, Harry, I think for you, it’s helped you to get to a point where, you know, you’re you’re less inclined to think about your swing or doing things with your golf swing. You’re more inclined just to, okay, accept that one and then move on to the next number. Yeah. To me, it’s more like playing golf. Um, I get 12 shots per yardage. So, I like to do 75 to 125 is kind of my wedge numbers and gives you 12 shots and I treat those 12 shots like I’m going on a shot on the golf course. Full routine, full number, picture of the shot. It gives you a pin and it really helps me dial in of I don’t like practicing when I’m not fully engaged. It helps me fully engage of what I’m doing. I like that. Whenever I think you do it, I I think guy’s guy and discipline. Do you think that your discipline is kind of is a is a big reason why you’re still doing doing this as you know the the age goes up as well? It is. Yeah. Um I feel like Dustin could say, I’ve always been a hard worker. I’ve enjoyed the work. I’ve enjoyed the grind. And I’ve probably got more disciplined and and just I mean having a 2-year-old daughter now, my time management is way better now. And I feel like I’ve I’ve gotten better at that through the years. And I’ve always been a hard worker. I just say I work a lot smarter now than than being out at the golf course for eight or eight or nine hours. Like I can’t do that anymore, but definitely working smarter. So Tuesdays when you’re out here, you know, Justin, uh, first of all, how much how much are you is there ever a week where you come out and you’re like, Harry, you look great, dude. I don’t really need to say anything to you. I mean, I’m assuming that’s probably most of the time that happens. Well, the last six months certainly have been, you know, have been really good. You know, I think the work you’ve done in the gym, certainly in the offseason and the continued work coming into this season, having seen some really good performances in major championships as well. you know, it’s helped us to kind of underline or put a kind of a stamp on the season. So, you know, there are times, but you know, Harris is a, you know, like you guys are all perfectionists to some degree. So, he’s always looking for ways to get a little bit better. We’re we’re doing a little bit of ball testing in the offseason. We’re kind of trying to look at maybe some slight changes to the irons. You know, you felt that Port Rush, they’re great through the turf whenever the the surfaces are tight and then it gets a little bit more like the the stuff you had at East Lake. Um, the ball’s spinning up a little bit more. So, we’re trying to think of of of little ways just to help keep getting him 1% better. And uh I guess that’s my job. So, even if it there’s times where I can say, “Look, everything looks great.” I mean, he’s still going to push me to try and figure out ways to make him better. Well, interesting dynamic, too, you guys have because it’s not all not all the time your coach lives in the same hometown as you. So, you know, that that balance of do we do work at home, come here and play golf, or do we, hey, you’re coming with me Tuesday this week and let’s get after it. It’s that’s got to be a little easier to balance maybe. I I love having him in Sea Island. I love doing most of my work at home and then when I come to a tournament, it’s more maintenance or kind of check-in. I feel like he has one or two things that he’s kind of always looking for. And I personally don’t really like looking at my swing on video. Yeah. Isn’t that crazy how many guys line up with that? Yeah. I mean, because I can pick it apart and just see see things that I mean, I can there people there’s people that would empty their bank account to get get this guy’s golf swing. But it’s it’s crazy how we all kind of kind of think that way. You mentioned um Perry’s two runner-ups and majors this year. You’re you’re a Jeopardy fan. You like Jeopardy? Yeah. I got a trivia a little trivia thing for you. Did you know so you finished second to Scotty twice? Yeah. You’re one of three guys in the last 50 years to finish second in a major in the same year to the same guy. It’s It’s Nicholas to Watson and Ernie Ell’s to Tiger. Wow. That’s pretty cool. That is pretty cool. I mean, for not winning, it’s pretty cool. Not winning. Yeah. Um Yeah. I mean, I that was kind of a step in the right direction for me. I’m 36 now. I mean, don’t know how many more majors I’m going to be able to play the next 10 to 15 years, but it’s like these are the ones you got to get up for and and something that I’m always striving for. I mean, I’d love to win one, win multiple. Dude, you’re you’re so humble. Like, I think everyone out here would be like, “Dude, Harris English, you’re going to compete till you’re 50 out here in the majors.” I mean, you’re you’ve got the a perfect build for golf. You’re in in good shape. This is my favorite Harris English story. You ready for this? So, COVID happens, right? the the world’s ending. Friday of TPC of 2020, right? Our lockers are right next to each other. I shoot 74 or5 the first day. I get an automated text that says, “Matt, every $0, zero FedEx cup points.” And then my ranking. And then an hour later, they correct it and they chop the purse. I walk in there, our lockers are right next to each other, and Harris goes, “Hey, every look at this.” What did the text say? What? TC 1.8 million. 1.8. ate how many FedEx got points and then they corrected and then like an hour later for an hour. I mean these guy a lot of these guys thought like it was a one day event. Yeah. And Harris had a great day but just you know not a lot of guys would have handled it that way. I mean 18 dude is a tough it’s tough to get that subtracted back to like 50 grand. Yeah pretty much. But that was I mean I I hadn’t played sawrass that great leading up to that and I finally I think I shot 65. I think I think you shot 63. I finally was playing good. Finally played good at Sawrass and then they on Friday. I was I was so ready to give it a run that week. That’s a bummer. All right, before we get out of here, Ryder Cup, what what are your thoughts heading into it? I mean, this has got to be on your mind every single day right now leading up to it. Yeah. Have you told Keegan you’re playing all five yet? I I told him I’ll play whatever whatever he wants me to play. Zero or or five? Or five. Yeah. But yeah, I mean that that was my two goals this year were make the RDER Cup team, make the Georgia championship. I feel like my team has really pushed me to do that and it’s been a great year. I really wanted to make it on my own merit of making that team on points and I think I finished seventh or eighth on points when Steve Tricker picked me back in 2021. So that that was a big goal of mine and I’m ready for it. It’s going to be rowdy. Looking forward to going to battle with these guys.