Heavyweight win

India golfer Lahiri reveals change in bottom weight of clubs helped him finish second at Players Championship

Heavyweight win

Anirban Lahiri. Pic/Getty Images

A change in equipment and nearly 36 hours of rest between the first and second round helped India’s Anirban Lahiri find his mojo at one of the biggest events on the PGA Tour, The Players Championships, where he finished runner-up to claim the heftiest cheque (USD 2.18 million) of his career. Lahiri was one of the lucky ones to complete their opening round on March 10 and then spent indoors for the next 36 hours as rain disrupted the schedule, before teeing off for his second round in the afternoon on March 12.

Poor luck

Lahiri went into the lead after 54 holes and it was only a bit of poor luck that resulted in him missing a chance to take eventual winner, Cameron Smith, to the playoffs. Lahiri also made some changes to his equipment a few days before the start of the event at the TPC Sawgrass.

“The fact that we made this change [added more weight at the bottom to make the clubhead heavier], changed the swing weight and the balance. You don’t really make this kind of change unless you rule out everything else. This is the last thing you do. And we ruled out everything else. We double-checked every other specification in my equipment and then this was like the last kind of roll of the dice,” Lahiri, 34, said on Wednesday during a virtual press conference from USA.

So, will he continue with it? “Yes, definitely. I’ll stick with it in the future. This kind of changes are made not in the short term, these are long-term changes and because they’re long-term changes, you don’t consider making changes like this very often.

‘This was a big change’

“This was a big change, I made this change after nine years. So, I will probably play the same weight balance at least for three, four years,” said Lahiri.

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