Padriag’s Testimonial for the Quintic Putting Laboratory

June 7th, 2007 | PGA European Tour Golfers, Padraig Harrington, Putting Biomechanics

If you take your putting seriously then a visit to the Quintic Putting Laboratory is a must.

Dr Paul Hurrion’s biomechanical and hi-tech approach to this “game within a game” is unique… The use of the lab’s cameras, computer and Quintic biomechanical analysis software, together with Paul’s knowledge, will demonstrate to you things the human eye misses…

Taking your putting seriously will then start to show real results!

Best wishes and good luck”
Padraig Harrington - European No1: 2006

For further information on the Quintic Putting Laboratory, please visit:
www.quintic.com/quintic_putting_laboratory.htm

David Howell - I’ve never truly excelled on the greens, untill…

June 7th, 2007 | David Howell, PGA European Tour Golfers, Putting Biomechanics

“Putting has always been one of my strengths but I’ve never truly excelled on the greens. About 12 months ago (July 05) I decided in order to challenge the world’s best players I had to change my stroke.

With the assistance of Dr Paul Hurrion and his Quintic Biomechanical putting analysis software I’ve transformed my stroke. Visually it looks quite different but the changes have been quite easy to make.

If you get the chance to work with Paul I’d recommend it”.

David Howell
European No 3 - PGA Tour Professional 2006

Titleist ups the ante on its Performance Institute

June 5th, 2007 | Full Swing Biomechanics, Padraig Harrington
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Biomechanist and MD of Quintic Consultancy Ltd, Dr 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 the TPI, 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!”

McGowan Makes Challenge Tour Breakthrough

June 4th, 2007 | Biomechanics Consultancy, Putting Biomechanics

ross.jpgEngland’s Ross McGowan secured his maiden professional victory after a sudden-death play-off against Frenchman Michael Lorenzo-Vera at the European Challenge Tour’s Oceanico Developments Pro-Am Challenge.

The 25 year old from Surrey, who defeated Oli Fisher to take the English Amateur title last summer, carded a final round of three under par 67 to tie Lorenzo-Vera on 15 under 265 at the Marriott Worsley Park Hotel and Country Club and force the tournament into extra holes.

McGowan made sure of victory with a par four at the second sudden-death play-off hole to secure the first prize of €23,600 and move to 11th on the Challenge Tour Rankings. McGowan is now eyeing a place alongside Fisher on The 2008 European Tour by taking one of the 20 available cards available through the Rankings.

“It’s not really sunk in yet so I don’t really know what to think, I’m more relieved than anything just now to have come through the play-off but I know that it’s a tremendous win for me,” 

“I have been close a few times this year but got impatient and let some chances to win slip away, so I just tried to stay patient this week and it has worked out for me. That was some thing that I was very conscious of this week and it paid off. I was three off the lead today and just went out trying to hit fairways and greens early on. Then, all of a sudden I rolled a couple of ten footers at the first and second for birdie and I was right in there.

“That’s when staying patient became the key factor for me, and that’s why it was so satisfying to come through.”

Ross had visited Quintic’s putting laboratory for a biomechanics session with Dr Paul Hurrion at the end of April this year. Weight distrubution was the key change allowing the putter to stay lower to the ground through impact.

A dramatic final round at the Marriott Worsley Park Hotel and Country Club ended with Lorenzo-Vera and McGowan inseparable at the top of the leaderboard after the Frenchman’s fourth round 66 had given him the clubhouse lead that McGowan matched just 15 minutes later. With the scorecards signed and approved, the two men made their way back to the 18th tee to determine a sudden-death winner.

McGowan lipped out for birdie at the first extra hole, meaning another trip back to the 18th tee to do it all again. Another two great drives meant the pair were still neck and neck but Lorenzo-Vera’s approach skidded off the back of the green, while McGowan found the heart of the putting surface With an awkward lie against the fringe, Lorenzo-Vera knocked his third shot to ten feet but, after McGowan had made an easy two putt for par, the Frenchman could not hole out, leaving McGowan to celebrate his maiden success.

“This is such a huge win because I can now concentrate on getting my European Tour card through the Challenge Tour. This is the first huge step in my pro career and very exciting,” said McGowan.





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