He also became an inaugural inductee into the Victorian Golf Hall of Fame[2] (in 2011), alongside Peter Thomson, Burtta Cheney, Doug Bachli, Ivo Whitton and Bob Shearer.

Before the age of 18, Harris became a junior PGA member under professional Colin Campbell at Long Island Golf Club in 1940.

His professional golfing career was then put on hold for the next six years when he was enlisted in the Australian Army during the Second World War.

He spent this time serving as a sapper (a soldier of the engineer corps) in Darwin and later on Labuan Island in Borneo.

Later they worked in Hartley's sports store on Flinders St. All of Harris's teaching and practice at this time was done by hitting into nets off rubber mats.