This Is Not An Endorsement

From our founder:

I was 19 when Sergio made that famous running leap at Medinah. He was also 19. Link at the bottom of the email if you want to re-live it.

Not only do we share a birth year, we also share a love of Ben Hogan. Maybe that’s why I started studying his swing so intently.

I used the same driver as him, the Titleist 975D with a 43.5” steel shaft.

If I could have replicated his swing back then, I would have. His tremendous lay-off that shallowed the plane and gave him his unique looking swing; the same move that made his driver the most accurate in the world. While others started swinging up to improve launch conditions, Sergio stayed true to his swing and continued to catch it on the way down with the driver - something nobody was teaching at the time. But he was good. And he knew his game.

And Sergio is still good.

I watched him hit balls for 30 minutes yesterday.

Meticulously cleaning grooves, he nipped every wedge to a tiny radius around the flag.

PW-5, same routine, same Sergio swing, same result… Every apex on every iron, peaking through the same window in the building behind the range.

3 wood.. Must have been trying to shape that one a little… a couple mid-trajectory draws, a few high cuts, and a few bullets. Hong Kong Golf Club is tight…

Driver. Higher than I expected. Longer too. But damn, Hogan would have been proud. The trajectory and precision. Like Sergio was the producer and director of a boring yet somehow exciting play “tiny fades”.

No wonder this guy won over 35 times.

But that’s not the full Sergio Garcia story.

Sergio is passionate. He is creative. He is determined. And from my few conversations with him, I’m confident in saying he's a perfectionist. That’s why he leads all time Ryder Cup points earned with 28.5, next back is 24.

The way he folds his rain gear before putting it in the bag. The way he thinks about organization. Everything has a place. And if it doesn’t, it should.

I bet the trunk of his car looks like the back of my 4runner; organized to a tee.

This is why Sergio using a MNML GOLF Bag makes sense.

If we made a bag for a player with a different mind, we wouldn’t get the appreciation and feedback we crave.

Making a bag for the best players in the world helps us make the best golf bags in the world.

Thank you Sergio and the Fireballs team for trusting us to make your bags.

Thank you Andrew and Irek for reaching out to us after seeing the seawaste material in Singapore.

Thank you Clarence and Chen for getting these bags built so quickly and so professionally.

Thank you Rob, Sap, Nick, Chance, Logan, Andre, Hannah, and Kaitlyn for holding it down in CA while we are over here in Hong Kong.

And the biggest thank you to Nicolle and Campbell for creating, documenting, and passionately going above and beyond.

To everyone on team MNML GOLF (that’s you if you’re reading this) please follow and support our new favorite team this week as they aim to defend and maintain their title as Champions at the HSBC LIV GOLF in Hong Kong.

Go FIREBALLS!

Passionately perfecting the golf bag,

Sam Goulden

This Is Not An Endorsement

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