English takes a day to visit Jaguars training camp a week before the start of the FedEx Cup playoffs
Jacksonville Jaguars coach Liam Cohen is about to experience First Coast golf
Jacksonville Jaguars coach Liam Cohen is an avid golfer and said the sport can help footballers, particularly from the mental side.
- Golfer Harris English visited Jacksonville Jaguars Training Camp and compared his approach to golf to Jaguar’s systematic preparation.
- English has achieved success in his job with coach Ramon Beskansa and has a connection with Jacksonville through Bessansa and Jaguars coach Liam Cohen.
- English has had a successful season, winning his fifth career title and competing for the major championship.
Harris English has had a very good season on the PGA Tour, so it deserves a day trip like the one he took to visit Jacksonville Jaguars at the Miller Electric Center on July 28th and watch his first training camp practice at Pad.
English said he could identify with his formula for success in 2025. He largely equated his work with Jacksonville manager Ramon Beskansa with the detailed and organized structure of the NFL football team preparing for the season.
“It’s all system-based,” he said of the work that led to him being ranked in the top 20 on the tour of strokes he won for most of the season. “It’s like what these guys are doing (gestures to the field where the Jaguar is going through the drill). That’s how you do it with it. You drill every day, and then you get to a point that you don’t even think about.”
Harris English went to school with Liam Cohen’s agent.
There is another link to Jacksonville in English. Relationship with Beskansa (Eric Larson, a regular British caddy, caddyed English at the British Open when he was denied entry to Northern Ireland due to a drug conviction 30 years ago despite working in English in the UK 10 times).
The British got to know Jaguar coach Liam Cohen. Because Cohen’s agent, former Jaguars player Jack McClendon, is a classmate of the English high school at Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
English and Cohen had no chance to play golf together. But once the season is over, Cohen has an invitation to come to St. Simon’s Island, Georgia, and is home to British people and tees it on a world-class track on Golden Island.
“I know he’s busy right now, but when he’s finished, I want him to get up there and play,” English said.
Harris enjoys his career season
English will return to work next week when the FedEx Cup playoffs begin with the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind. He is sixth on the points list, and the result of the season when he won his fifth career title at the Farmers Insurance Open and two runner-ups in the major championships at the PGA Championship and the British Open.
English was also tied to 12th place in Master and finished fourth in the Travelers Championship.
English may have already won his first major if Scottie Scheffler hadn’t run away with both titles. However, he has earned more than $7.7 million, making him sixth on the current list of Ryder Cup points. English earned 16 of 18 cuts and soon passed $40 million in career revenue.
“I’ve built a really good system,” he said of his practice plans and playing schedule. “I’m just 36 years old and I’m in my 14th year on tour, so I’m thinking about how I need to practice, how I’m going to need to do business. I feel like I’ve done that more.”
English sets two goals for himself, and he appears to meet both.
“We had two goals and we reached the Tour Championship (for the top 30 players on the FedEx Cup Points list after the first two playoff events) and created that Rider Cup team,” he said. “But it’s still about all the tournaments I present. I’m going to try to be the most prepared, the best held, the most hydrated.
He saw Jaguar players pass another drill and make more comparisons between football and golf at the highest level.
“I love seeing the complexity of what they’re working on,” he said. “Because I do the same thing in practice. I love watching soccer and I love the little details they’re working on.”
