You can take Brian Harman a long, long way from his native Peach State, but you definitely can't take his love for Georgia football out of the newly minted winner of the Open Championship.

After making history at Royal Liverpool by taking the Open Championship by a whopping six strokes, Harman revealed how he was inspired entering the final round by a mantra coach Kirby Smart instills in the two-time defending national champion Bulldogs.

“[I] kept thinking about something Kirby Smart said, ‘I'm not going to be hunted. I'mma hunt,” the Georgia native said, per Brendan Porath of the Shotgun Start podcast.

Harman finished at 13-under par following a Sunday score of one-under 70, his worst at Royal Liverpool. He entered the final round with a commanding five-shot lead, feeling pressure from both vocal hecklers rooting for Englishman Tommy Fleetwood and a strong group of competitors hoping he'd falter.

Living Smart's message, Harman made himself the hunter on Sunday instead of the hunted, his back-to-back birdies on Nos. 14 and 15 essentially clinching the Claret Jug.

A two-time previous winner on the PGA Tour, it had been six years since Harman last finished atop the leaderboard. His best prior finish at a major also came in 2017, when Brian Harman tied for second-place at the U.S. Open, four strokes back of winner Brooks Koepka.

Smart has coached Georgia football to consecutive College Football Playoff titles, restoring the Bulldogs as arguably the premier program in all of college football during his seven-year tenure in Athens.