2X-PGA Tour Champ Pushes Body to Limit in Last-Ditch Effort to Avoid Surgery Battling a painful hip injury, a PGA Tour golfer reworked his swing and training in a gritty effort to avoid going under th

Imagine having a hip injury so bad that it hurt when you walked, fighting a brutal battle with your body where surgery felt inevitable. Now, fast forward to a few months, and you’re suddenly leading a $6M PGA Tour event. This is the story of South African Garrick Higgo, smiling through a 13-under after 36 holes at the 2025 Sanderson Farms Championship, like none of that ever happened.

Being atop the leaderboard at the Country Club of Jackson didn’t come easy for Higgo. After winning the 2025 Corales Puntacana Championship , a week after the 2025 Masters in an alternate-field event in the Dominican Republic, he suffered a labrum injury that all but wrecked the rest of the season. At the Sanderson Farms Championship, media asked Higgo if surgery was ever an option. His answer: honest an