Padraig Harrington wins ‘The 136th Open Championship’

July 23rd, 2007 | Biomechanics Consultancy, Golf Biomechanics, Putting Biomechanics, Quintic Video Software

Congratulations Padraig… what a day!

Exciting to the point of gut-wrenching!!

A superb last round of four under par 67 took Padraig into a play-off with Sergio Garcia for the Open Championship. Four birdies and an eagle three on the 14th hole left him one shot ahead playing the fearsome 18th hole but two visits to the water seemed to have put paid to his chances of winning a first major. But in a dramatic finish Garcia lipped out for par and a four hole play-off ensued. Like a man spared the death penalty, Padraig played superb golf to leave himself with a four foot putt for the title. He holed it, (straight in the middle) to become the first Irishman to win the title in sixty years and has now won all three play-offs he has contested this year.

Harrington’s victory, his first Major Championship success in his 37th attempt, saw him become the first European born player to win The Open Championship since Scotland’s Paul Lawrie triumphed at Carnoustie in 1999 and only the second Irishman in history to lift the Claret Jug following Fred Daly’s triumph at Royal Liverpool in 1947.

The 35 year old Dubliner picked up the first prize of €1,106,617 (£750,000) to move top of The European Tour Order of Merit – where he ended last season – and up to sixth on the Official World Golf Ranking, his highest ever placement.

“I think it will take a long time to settle in what I have achieved today,” he said. “The emotion of it, I couldn’t believe it. I know it was only a short putt to win in the end but as it was rolling into the middle of the hole I’m thinking, I’m the Open Champion! It was amazing, incredible to see that putt drop.”

“Always my goal was to win more than one Major and if I crossed the threshold and won one, as I have done now, I always want to win more. I’m going to celebrate like it’s the pinnacle of my career but I’ve got other goals to move on with now. I’m certainly going to enjoy this one though now, and for the foreseeable future. Forever actually.”

There’s no substitute for building a solid putting stroke that won’t break down under pressure and I (Dr Paul Hurrion – Quintic) can’t imagine any more pressure than Padraig was under several times late on Sunday. Dr Paul Hurrion was personally mentioned in his speech, we at Quintic are very proud of what he has achieved, all those hours upon hours, late nights, hitting balls beyond midnight have all paid off, congratulations once again.

First of many Padraig !?!

*His 12th European Tour International Schedule victory in his 260th European Tour event as a professional.

*His first Major Championship victory in his 37th Major Championship appearance.

*Becomes the first European-born player to win a Major Championship since Paul Lawrie at The 1999 Open Championship also at Carnoustie – a gap of 31 Major Championships.

*This victory beats his best previous Major Championship performances of fifth in the US Open Championship in 2006 and tied fifth in the 1997 Open Championship, 2000 US Open Championship, 2002 Masters Tournament, and 2002 Open Championship.

*Wins The Open Championship in his 11th appearance.

*Third consecutive first-time Major Champion, following Zach Johnson (Masters Tournament) and Angel Cabrera (US Open Championship). First time this has occurred since Phil Mickelson (2004 Masters Tournament), Shaun Micheel (2003 US PGA Championship) and Ben Curtis (2003 The Open Championship).

*Second victory on The 2007 European Tour International Schedule, following the Irish Open.

*Third victory of 2007, following the Irish Open and Irish PGA Championship last week.

*Fourth time in his European Tour career he has recorded multiple victories in the same season.

*Gains an exemption into The Open Championship until the age of 65.

*Gains a five year exemption into The Masters Tournament, the US Open Championship and USPGA Championship.

*Gains a place in the 2007 PGA Grand Slam of Golf, joining Johnson and Cabrera.

*Gains a place in the 2007 WGC – Bridgestone Invitational and HSBC World Match Play Championship.

*Gains a place in the 2008 HSBC Champions.

*Extends his European Tour exemption until the end of 2017.

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Titleist ups the ante on its Performance Institute

June 5th, 2007 | Biomechanics Consultancy, Golf Biomechanics
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Biomechanist and MD of Quintic Consultancy, Paul Hurrion has been invited to join the Biomechanics Advisory Panel of the Titleist Performance Institute (TPI).

 
The TPI was born out of an ongoing search for knowledge about bodies in sports motion. Morphing out of a private facility that was created for the benefit of Titleist staff players worldwide, the public side of the TPI was first opened in 2004.The TPI was born out of an ongoing search for knowledge about bodies in sports motion. Morphing out of a private facility that was created for the benefit of Titleist staff players worldwide, the public side of the TPI was first opened in 2004.It is one of the most technologically advanced golf evaluation facilities in existence focusing on swing efficiency, physical conditioning, and custom equipment fitting. It combines industry leading experts, state of the art technology, and world class facilities to enhance the performance and physical well-being of golfers of all skill levels. You’d find that a good deal of what is discussed and debated by the members of the Institute is over the heads of most club golfers, but it’s meat & potatoes to professional athletes for whom the game is a livelihood.There are eight people in total currently consulting just on the TPI biomechanics panel – each with discrete disciplinary skill-sets and in different sports. The idea is that physiological & biomechanical aspects of all sports have information that can be applied to golf. Considering that this will involve processing vast amounts of data to extract valid components, an exhaustive degree of knowledge is needed.

“We met Paul through Padraig Harrington and knew that he was doing research on shoes and motion analysis of elite athletes,” explains Dr Greg Rose of TPI. “We look for advisors that can help direct us in each discipline and we try to get experts from different sports that may have great information that we could apply to golf. We definitely try to get advisors who don’t think the same so that we can get great discussions on each topic.

“We try to meet at least once a year, we pose monthly questions to discuss and debate through email, we all write articles to post on our website, and we will try to publish 6-10 research papers over 12 months from the group.”

2007 and 2008 are going to be very busy years for Paul Hurrion. As demand among PGA players and management grows for Hurrion’s one-to-one consulting time, Quintic itself is poised to launch a range of very special training aids under the Quintic brand.

Designed, packaged and priced to have appeal among the broadest range of golfers, these training aids are distinguished by their simplicity and instant feedback.

Paul Hurrion and the Quintic team have amassed a vast body of work on the complexities of the professional athletes’ sporting performance. An innate knowledge of this data firstly enables a biomechanist efficiently to target a problem or an opportunity for performance improvement. Secondly, it makes it possible to identify accurately the common problems of most golfers and crucially, the quickest and most effective cure.

“At its purest level, yes, biomechanics is probably deathly dull to men and women who simply love the game of golf and always want to play better,” says a sanguine Paul Hurrion. “The point is those people don’t have to bother with exhaustive analysis of their game because we’ve done that. For those that are interested the facts and figures, we can gladly discuss these, otherwise they can just benefit by our research… and play better golf.”

The TPI will be a Shangri-La for serious golfers, irrespective of the brand of club they swing. They’ll sell truckloads of very worthy Titleist gear off the back of it, but that’s a given and no secret. What is perhaps a more closely guarded secret is just how coveted a place is in this particular school.

Greg Rose : “We are a private facility – used mainly by our professional Titleist staff players worldwide (almost 8,000 players in total). We do offer 35 fantasy camps called ‘experiences’ each year – where 6 amateurs will come in for three days and we treat them like they are Adam Scott for the week. We charge $7,500 per person and it is usually sold out well in advance!”

Dr Paul Hurrion invitated to join the Editorial Board of the Annual Review of Coaching.

February 1st, 2007 | Biomechanics Consultancy, Golf Biomechanics

The Annual Review of Golf Coaching will provide authoritative, state-of-the-art reviews on all matters related to golf coaching. In addition, original research studies will be considered for publication. As a technical, scholarly, peer-reviewed journal, the Annual Review of Golf Coaching will strive to bridge the gap between scientific and practical knowledge in golf. Collaboration between golf coaches and experts in sports science will be instrumental in this regard. The Annual Review of Golf Coaching will promote reflective practice in the golf coaching community and become a key source of knowledge for continuing professional development. It will also provide global, economic and political overviews of the golf coaching business.

The review process of the Annual Review of Golf Coaching is ‘open,’ which means that both authors and reviewers know each other’s identity; and acknowledgment of the reviewers’ work is footnoted on the first page of each article. This process has proved to be successful for the International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching.

For further information please visit: www.multi-science.co.uk/golf-coaching.htm

Annual Review of Golf Coaching
Editor: Simon Jenkins
Published Annually • 2007 issue ISBN: 0906522 544 • £25/$45

Hi-Tec CDT Super Power Tour – It’s finally arrived!

December 13th, 2006 | Biomechanics Consultancy, Golf Biomechanics

Hi-Tec Golf Manager, Fredrik Sundstrom, has been working closely with Quintic Consultancy Ltd & Padraig Harrington to develop the CDT Super Power Tour shoes – this has taken about 18 months of product development and Hi-Tec are proud to launch a shoes that takes performance to a new level.

Today, the shoes have arrived and will be sent out to Padraig Harrington for the first round of competitive play. The CDT Super Power Collection is the new products, one level up from the CDT Power. You can find out more about them by clicking on the following link: www.CDTPower.com

THE POWER COMES FROM YOUR FEET

The CDT Super Power will launch in Spring/ Summer 2007 in the UK; so keep an eye out for them! The CDT Super Power Tour is the “World’s most technologically advanced and performance enhancing golf shoe.”

The Spring/ Summer 2007 holds a fantastic range of shoes which includes the CDT Super Power Tour mentioned above, the CDT Super Power Classic, CDT Super Power Pro in two vibrant colours (white/ black/ blue and white/ black/ lime), the C2 Comfort and many more.

Supermodel Jodie Kidd recently became the latest Hi-Tec Ambassador and her role as design consultant is sure to make a huge impact in the World of Women’s Golf. This exciting new collection, JK, will soon be in the shops!

Hi-Tec Golf, Quintic & REMAX World Long Drive Championship

October 30th, 2006 | Biomechanics Consultancy, Golf Biomechanics, Quintic Video Software

Hi-Tec Golf had over 20 participants in the REMAX World Long Drive Championship wearing the CDT® Power Technology. The WLDC was being held at The Palms GC in Mesquite, Nevada from October 24-29 and is the premier event in Professional Long Drive.

When the CDT Technology launched in 2004 at the Orlando PGA Show, Hi-Tec immediately had long drive competitors stopping by the booth to see this performance driven outsole. Since the launch there are over 20 contestants hitting in them each week at the long drive events globally.

“The long drive events are the perfect forum for us to prove that this outsole is purely developed around performance,”

“This type of competition brings an exciting dimension to golf involving power, accuracy and distance. The same can be said about the CDT® Power Technology used in the Hi-Tec Golf Collection.”

Brian Bednarek, Director of Golf USA.

Launched over two years ago, Hi-Tec developed a technologically advanced outsole using biomechanics from Quintic Laboratories and the expertise of European golfer, Padraig Harrington. Most golfers understand that an increase in balance and stability can allow more distance and power. Hi-Tec created the CDT® Power to support this equation The components of the CDT® Power give the needed stability to, in turn, give a golfer the ability to swing harder and therefore hit longer.

This week Hi-Tec has put over 20 competitors in the CDT Power knowing there is no better place than these competitions to test this type of technology.

“The CDT has had a domino effect. We went into this week with ten players and word of mouth has doubled our exposure”, quotes Brian Bednarek, Director of Golf. “We wish all our athletes good luck and hope to see our technology at the top of the leaderboard on Sunday.”

Children’s Hospice to Benefit from Record Crowds at Loch Lomond

July 10th, 2006 | Golf Biomechanics, Quintic Video Software

With advance tickets sales 25 per cent ahead of last year, record crowds are expected to head to Loch Lomond this week to watch Tim Clark defend his title in the £2.4 million Barclays Scottish Open, and for the third year running, spectators at the event will be helping to raise money for the Children’s Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS).

While the world’s top golfers, including Darren Clarke, Fred Couples, Luke Donald, Ernie Els, Sergio Garcia, Retief Goosen, David Howell, Tom Lehman, Colin Montgomerie and José Maria Olazábal, compete for the £400,000 first prize, golf fans will be competing for top prizes in various charity golf activities in the Tournament Village, all in aid of CHAS.

There are lots of great prizes on offer including the latest Ping G5 putter, a LinksPutt putting green, a weekend break for six at the Bowmore Distillery on Islay and an Omega Sea Master watch.

Peter Adams, Championship Director, The Barclays Scottish Open, said: “The Barclays Scottish Open is proud to be supporting CHAS with a number of fun activities for spectators in the village including The Barclays Scottish Open LinksPutt Challenge, a nine-hole putting competition, The Barclays Scottish Open Golf Academy, in association with Quintic Video analysis software, where you get a video golf lesson and a CD Rom showing your swing, the Scottish Golf Central Nearest the Pin golf simulator and the Grand Prize Draw.”

Keith Williams, Chief Executive, Loch Lomond Golf Club, said: “Last year we raised £17,000 for CHAS over the week of the tournament so all being well we can better that this year. Advanced ticket sales are well ahead of 2005, so we are expecting record crowds at this year’s tournament. Anyone who has not yet purchased tickets will be able to do so at the gate.”

With more and more tickets for the event being booked on line, visitors to The Barclays Scottish Open website have been invited to share their opinions on two of the most debated topics in golf. When asked, ‘How would you toughen a golf course for the best players in the world?’ – over 100 visitors to the website offered their views. The most popular were to narrow the fairways, create more hazards and to make the greens smaller.

It has been over 100 years since Golf was an Olympic sport and when asked to respond to the question – ‘Should golf be an Olympic sport?’ – we found that 55% of 346 respondents feel golf should indeed be an Olympic sport. These topics and more will be debated during the tournament on The Barclays Scottish Open spectator radio station on 87.9FM.



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