Garrick Higgo is one of the brightest young talents on the PGA Tour, who has garnered many people’s attention for his skill, composure, and some of his early victories. “He just had a calmness about him that exceeded his age,” is what Trevor Immelman added when he captained the Junior Presidents Cup. But given all of his success at his age, he carries more than golf clubs to the course; he carries the memory of his father, Michael Higgo.

At just nine years old, he lost his dad in a car accident when he and his family were out on vacation. “My family made the 13-hour drive to Johannesburg to visit our newborn cousin. I can barely talk about what happened. My dad, Michael, my mom, Susan, my older brother, Michael, and my younger sister, Calista, and I were all in the car when another

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