Higgins rekindles Euro Tour love affair

For most, it’s a human mincing machine, a graveyard for dreams that leads to nothing more than the drowning of sorrows in golf’s ultimate Last Chance Saloon.

Not so for David Higgins.

Just over a week before he celebrates his 40th birthday, and 17 years after he came through the European Tour Qualifying School for the first time, the soft-spoken Waterville man seized his destiny after completing the “most important round of my career”.