His shopping cart was denied entry to the United Kingdom, he co-directs open anyway

Over the past two weeks, Harris English has been forced to create several important backup plans he may need for this week. Regardless, he still co-directs the open championship.

The Englishman pulled a four under 67 Thursday at the Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland, which places him in equality of five for the first time after the opening day.

“I was looking forward to coming this week, and immediately after playing the course, I really liked it,” said English. “I loved the way it supervises the starting strokes and you can see many more problems than you would do on a normal linking course.”

And the fact that he did this with his rescue shopping cart – technicallyThe backup of its backup – makes its turn Sept -Birdie even more impressive. The longtime shopkeeper of English, Eric Larson, was denied entry to the United Kingdom due to a previous conviction on drugs. He was sentenced to 13 years in federal prison in 1995, served a little over 10 years and returned to the PGA Tour shopping. (He worked for Mark Calcavecchia before and after the prison and also spent time with Anthony Kim and Jeff Overton.)

But despite the conviction that now has several decades, the new travel regulations for the Americans visiting the United Kingdom made Larson difficult to get abroad for Genesis Scottish Open last week and the open championship this week. Larson tried to obtain an exemption from the visa rules for the electronic travel authorization – the candidates can be refused the entry if they served 12 months or more in prison – but was unlucky despite the English efforts, the PGA Tour and R&A.

Joe Etter Caddie for English at the Scottish Open (they equaled the 22nd), but Etter is back on the bag for his ordinary player, Davis Thompson, this week. This means that English called Ramon Bascansa, his coach. They work together for a dozen years on his putting game and his short game.

“He was a kind of plan B in books,” said English. “Obviously, Eric was going to, hopefully, go for this week. It didn’t work. Afterwards [Ancer] on the liv tour. He is a shopping cart for me before in Canada years ago, so he probably knows my game as well as anyone in my team. He was the perfect guy to come Caddy this week.

No complaint on Thursday.

English sorted three of his first four and shot in three sous 33. He briefly reached five under his head solo, but ended the opening day with a share of it.

The Englishman ranked fifth in won traits: outside the tee and finished 14th in SG: Put.

“Each player or shopping cart has his different pace of the way he likes things. Fortunately for Ramon, he has been working with me for so long and looked at me playing, looked at me hitting balls, so he knows what I like, and I have the impression that we have sort of out of the start,” said English. “These training rounds really worked on it, and very comfortable with the way he provided the information.

“But it’s different. Eric Caddie for me for eight, nine years now, be and you get so used to this guy in the way he does everything, small things of the place where he puts Sharpies and markers and he always has t-shirts in his pocket and just little things. You get used to this, but Ramon has done great today.”

The Englishman, 35, won five times on the PGA Tour – more recently, Farmers Insurance Open of this year – but is still after his first major title. He has four top 10 in 34 departures, the most recent of which came to Masters this year, where he was a finalist.