Harris English was the primary participant to place Golf Pleasure’s new Align Max grip in play.
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After his staffer’s win on the Farmers Insurance coverage Open this weekend, Ping Tour rep Kenton Oates referred to as Harris English a “creature of behavior and routine.”
“He loves the method of what it takes to be nice at this sport and this bleeds into what you see in his bag,” Oates mentioned.
Trying into English’s golf bag, it’s not laborious to see the place Oates will get the “creature of behavior” characterization. It begins together with his 14-year-old Ping Scottsdale Hohum putter after which goes to his G400 fairway wooden, which got here out in 2018. The one present line mannequin golf equipment Harris has within the bag are his set of Ping Blueprint T irons.
However in the event you look a bit nearer, English really swapped a bit of substances into his bag for the primary time this week in San Diego.
English turned the primary participant to modify right into a full set of Golf Pleasure‘s new MCC Align Max grips. Golf Pleasure has but to launch the Align Max so particulars are scarse in the meanwhile, however Golf Pleasure’s U.S. Competitions Supervisor Brett Zollman confirmed the brand new design is predicated on the corporate’s fashionable Align grip know-how, however with a brand new enhanced reminder.
Golf Pleasure’s Align grips, much like a conventional ribbed grip, characteristic a reminder ridge alongside the underside of the grip to assist gamers preserve consciousness of face angle. However with Align, as a substitute of being contained in the group, the ridge is on the outside of the grip. Xander Schauffele received two majors final season with the MCC Align, which initially got here out in 2017.
Harris made the swap to the Align Max from the unique Align on Monday, with simply two days earlier than the early Wednesday begin at Torrey Pines.
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“What he preferred about it specifically in his glove hand, he felt like he had extra really feel of the reminder in that hand, and in addition his backside hand and in his fingers,” Zollman informed GOLF Sunday. “He’s a extremely really feel participant and you already know that was that was a giant factor for him having the ability to get consciousness together with his fingers.”
English was launched to the brand new grip final fall, however Torrey Pines was the primary time he really noticed the completed grip able to be put in.
