Men’s professional sports in America is a big man’s game, except for soccer, which isn’t really an American sport — yet.

Men’s professional sports in America is a big man’s game, except for soccer, which isn’t really an American sport — yet.

Most pitchers in baseball are 6-3 or taller. Shortstops range to 6-4. Even most catchers are 6-0-plus. Football and basketball are the land of the giants.

Most PGA Tour players have grown to over 6-0. So, that makes Brian Harman’s British Open victory all the more impressive. The Georgia graduate and St. Simon Island resident is 5-7 (maybe). The 36-year-old has been a solid Tour player, a couple of trophies on his mantel and $27 million in his bank account. But he’d seldom even sniffed a major championship until his runaway victory at Royal Liverpool.

Abraham Ancer is the only other 5-7 player on Tour., but he looks slightly taller than Harman.

Harman certainly isn’t overpowering, but he hits line drives off the tee; is a superb irons player; and puts the lights out. Still, I’m not sure the British bookmakers were even taking bets on him. If they were, he was listed on the last page.

Now maybe all of us munchkins — I was 5-9 but I’m shrunk to 5-6 — have now found a new hero on the American sports stage.