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To say Brian Harman loves the outdoors would be an understatement. Depending on the season, when he’s not playing on the PGA TOUR you can probably find Harman hunting ducks or wild turkeys or deer. He likes to fish, too, and life at home on St. Simon’s Island on the Georgia coast presents plenty of opportunities to get outdoors and do all of those things. Harman also marks his golf balls with dots that look like deer tracks. Shoot, he even proposed to his wife, Kelly, while they were turkey hunting – taping the engagement ring to her brand new camouflage pants. It’s a family thing. “I grew up hunting with my dad,” says Harman, who defends his title at the Wells Fargo Championship this week. “That’s how we spent time together. That’s how we still spend time together.” Harman’s favorite thing of all to do is bow hunt for deer. He uses a 31-inch Mathews Switchback compound bow made of carbon fiber and feels he can be accurate with it from 50 yards or so. “It’s more about getting in there close to them when you’re bow hunting,” Harman explains. “Paying attention to which way the wind’s blowing, stuff like that. It’s kind of a like chess game.” Deer tend to be most active in the morning and the late afternoon, he says. Harman has several favorite hunting spots where they have tree stands or blinds to wait for the deer. “Your aim has to be good,” he says. “You’ve got to be quiet. You have to know how to sit still. “It’s kind of a skill that’s been lost to my generation, being able to sit still and not be on your phone all day.” Harman killed a 163-inch, 13-point buck when he went hunting with fellow TOUR pro Kevin Kisner in Texas last year. The deer weighed about 180 pounds. Harman is not just killing for sport, though. He has a freezer full of deer meat, as well as ducks and the fish he’s caught. “We eat everything that we kill,” Harman says. “I’m not really a trophy hunter. I just like nature. And I like knowing where my food comes from, too.” Harman also likes cooking it – particularly when he’s settling down in front of the TV to watch his alma mater, Georgia, play football. His favorite cut is a shoulder roast. “I wrap it up in tinfoil with a bunch of different stuff and I stick in the oven at 210 for 10 or 11 hours,” he says. “It’s great for game days. It’s wake up in the morning, throw the shoulder in, it tastes just like pot roast. “Most of the other stuff turns into ground meat like chili, spaghetti. If I had a better place to age it would be like eating steaks, but I don’t have a good place to age it yet.” Harman says there are trail cameras in the areas where he hunts. The photos that are taken help Harman and his friends identify the older deer to track. “We take pictures during the summer and just try to pick out two or three that are old deer and we hunt those deer in particular,” he says. “We don’t kill young deer. … “Obviously, if we were solely hunting for food we’d be a little less selective. But that’s part of the sport of it. But we take care of it. We respect the stuff that we harvest.”

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Collin Morikawa has been one of the TOUR’s top iron players since turning professional in 2019, finishing in the top three of Strokes Gained: Approach-the-Green in each of his first three full seasons. Throughout nearly all of his professional career – aside from playing in extremely firm conditions in Scotland – the two-time major winner has used TaylorMade’s P730 blade irons that were released in 2017. Morikawa typically uses the P730 blades in his short irons (7-PW) and combines them with cavity-back style P7MC irons at the top end of his set (5- and 6-iron). This week at the Hero World Challenge, however, Morikawa is debuting new “P7CM” blade irons in the place of his previous P730’s. Speaking with Morikawa on Tuesday, GolfWRX.com learned that he recently conducted in-depth testing at TaylorMade’s headquarters in Carlsbad, California, and he’s been using the new irons for just two weeks. “They’re brand new,” Morikawa told GolfWRX.com. “I’ve been using them for probably two weeks now. They’re not too far off from the P730’s that I’ve been using pretty much since I turned pro. I was fortunate enough to do some iron testing with TaylorMade – which I’ve never done – and go into the whole sole pattern, and bounce, and width of an iron. There’s nothing wrong with 730’s, I … love them, that’s why I played them for probably 4.5 years now. But there’s just certain shots here and there that come out of nowhere.” The new P7CM models creatively weave Morikawa’s initials into their nomenclature, similar to how Tiger Woods’ TaylorMade “P7TW” prototype irons are named, and Morikawa said he’s finding tighter dispersion patterns with the prototypes. To go along with his new P7CM blade irons (7-PW), Morikawa has also added new cavity-back TaylorMade P7MC’s to replace his previous 5- and 6-irons. He called the switch an “easy transition.” In nongolf equipment news, the newly married Morikawa told GolfWRX.com that he tried hitting range balls while wearing his new wedding ring for the first time, but he’ll likely take the ring off while playing golf … for now, at least. “I hit balls for the first time yesterday, and I didn’t love the feeling,” Morikawa said. “Right now, she’s going to have to live with it off (while playing golf), or else I’ll have to find a new job I can wear my ring. But I don’t really want to do that.” Should the newlyweds come to an understanding on the wedding ring, Morikawa will officially debut his new prototype irons this week.

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