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GEL Putting Alignment Mirror - 9 Video Drills…

November 24th, 2009 | GEL Golf, Tuition

GEL Putting Alignment Mirror - 9 Video Drills Introduction

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I have been in the world of putting biomechanics and research for over 10 years working scientifically to biomechanically analyse the putting stroke. I work with many PGA Tour Professional golfers and I am constantly using additional input to scientifically reassess principles and push the boundaries in the field of ‘Putting Biomechanics’. The GEL Putting Alignment Mirror is one result - a simple, yet extremely effective training tool, enabling golfers at all levels to improve their putting stroke.

The nine drills on the following page : http://paulhurrion.com/video/ will help you to use the GEL Putting Alignment Mirror to its best to help you ensure perfect alignment, promote consistency and ultimately enable you to make more putts…

The graphics and tools provided by the GEL Putting Alignment Mirror enable you to perfect consistent alignment of the putter face, shoulders, and eye position during each putt. The GEL Putting Alignment Mirror can be used on all manners of putts, breaking, straight and of varying length. Use this product indoors or on the practice putting green where tees can be used in specially designated positions. To purchase the GEL Putting Alignment Mirror please visit : http://www.gelgolf.co.uk or http://www.gelgolf.com

http://paulhurrion.com/video/

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Westwood crowned king in Dubai

November 23rd, 2009 | Lee Westwood, PGA European Tour Golfers, Padraig Harrington, Rory McIlory

Congratulations to Lee Westwood after a nerveless final round 64 secured a six shot victory and with it ‘The Race to Dubai’ title for 2009. The putter was certainly working over the weekend… The hard work is certainley starting to pay off!

Westwood, who led by two overnight, produced the finest round of his career to take the €830,675 first prize at the Earth course that also secured his status as European Number One for the second time in his career. With his second victory on The European Tour this season, the win moves Westwood up to World Number Four in the Official World Golf Rankings, matching his highest career position. To cap it all, his closing 64 was also a new course record on the Greg Norman-designed venue.

Congratulations also to Ross McGowan with his second place finish opens up a whole new scheduale for him next year. Ross has also worked hard on his putting and with the ‘palms together grip’. Ross carded a final round 68, including five straight birdies from the 12th, to hold on to second place on 17 under par after a sustained charge from Rory McIlroy, who fired five birdies on his back nine before bogeying the par five 18th to sign for a 67 and with it third place place on 15 under par as well as second in The Race to Dubai.

“I have no complaints. I gave it my best shot and it’s been a great season, but Lee is just in a different class,” said McIlroy, who gains a place in the top ten of the Official World Golf Rankings despite finishing runner up in The Race to Dubai. “Most times coming here leading and then finishing third would be good enough [to win The Race to Dubai], but even if I’d played well I’m not sure I could have got to 23 under!

Further down the leaderboard on tied 4th was Padraig Harrington, so all in all, it was a very exciting weekend watching the top 4 putt there way around the Earth Course. What do they say, Drive for Show, Putt for Dough…

Congratulations once again Lee, you certainley rolled a few in!

Lee Westwood
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - NOVEMBER 09: Lee Westwood of England lines up his putt on the par five 18th hole during the first round of the Dubai World Championship on the Earth Course, Jumeriah Golf Estates on November 19, 2009 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Ross Kinnaird/Getty Images)

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TPI Level 1 - Setanta College - The Sports College

November 18th, 2009 | Full Swing Biomechanics, TPI, Tuition

Setanta College – The Sports College : Specialists in Strength & Conditioning and Golf Studies Courses

Setanta College will be hosting (in association with Harrington Golf) a Titleist Performance Institute Certified Level 1 Fitness Instructor Seminar on 23rd & 24th Jan 2010 in CityWest Hotel, Dublin, Ireland. Tutors on the weekend will include personnel from TPI (USA), Harrington Golf and Setanta College.

Applications are being taken on-line This seminar will be limited to 120 places only and applicants are accepted on a first come - first served basis. For more details check the TPI section of this site. Also visit www.myTPI.com

The weekend course will serve individuals from Golf (the Teaching Pro and Fitness Instructors and Coaches), Medical/Physiotherapy/Physical Therapy, Biomechanics as well as the Leisure Fitness Industry and Strength & Conditioning Coaches who work with or wish to work with golfers at all levels of the game.

An added feature is the On-line Pre-Level 1 reading course which has an additonal cost to the main seminar. While this pre-reading is not essential for participation in the seminar, the course will give you preparatory and background understanding so that you will be well equipped for the seminar. In addition the On-line Pre-level 1 reading course continues after the seminar to help prepare you for the TPI Level 1 Golf Fitness Instructor examination

For delivery of TPI Level 1 Course and Pre-Course Reading Programme : Logon to: www.setantacollege.com

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Quintic Ball Roll v1.8 is launched!

October 23rd, 2009 | Quintic Ball Roll

Quintic Ball Roll v1.8 “The Launch Mointor for Putting” is now available to purchase… The latest version of Quintic Ball Roll software contains a number of new feature along with increased tracking capabilities and accuracy. The software tracks the ball for the first 12″ of the putt length. It then instantly and clearly shows the ball speed, sidespin (cut or hook), angular rotation (degrees & RPM), vertical bounce, launch angle and point at which true roll occurs. Crucially – and this is the most significant advance on Quintic’s already pioneering analysis tools – all of the above are reflected graphically, numerically and in a summary sheet in a way that was formerly only available for full swing analysis software for irons and woods.

The edit function enables you to ensure you always have a 100% reading, the feature enables you to go back over a putt and tell the software where a dot is manually, this is if it didn’t track it properly in LIVE mode… The additional ability to create a summary of the putting session is a significant upgrade enabling the user to compare and analyze up to 20 putts. The average, range and standard devaition of the putts is automatically updated after each putt and can be save into a session folder. It is then possible to compare session results, for example, compare two different styles of putter, before or after a lesson, increase or decrease the loft of the putter… The software measures the performances of the golf ball, which at the end of the day, if what matters.

“I sold more putters in the first month I used the Quintic Ball Roll software than I did the entire previous year. It is so fast and easy to use, and gives you the results needed instantly, it completely verifies which putter is right for each customer. Thank you for putting life back into my putter sales”

Eric Simonson
Pro-Vision Golf

“I cannot thank you enough for all your help over the last few weeks; I am very excited to add Quintic’s Ball Roll Software to my Putting Academy at The Club at Cordillera! The data provided by your system adds much more credibility to the skid and roll videos that I show each client currently. This information coupled with the SAM Puttlab offers each student- the true “Facts NOT Opinions” about their stroke. It is really nice to actually be able to quantify what is happening as we alter a putter’s lie, loft, and length over time.

Quintic is on the verge of something great with this simple analysis tool- every serious teacher should have this software on their computer!”

Tom F. Stickney II
The Club at Cordillera

To download the 21 day demo version please goto http://www.quinticballroll.com
Click on the Demo Version Download and follow the instructions on the screen.

www.quinticballroll.com

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McIlroy can learn from Garcia’s putting woes

October 13th, 2009 | PGA European Tour Golfers, Rory McIlory

By Karl McGinty
Tuesday, 13 October 2009

If Rory McIlroy ever gets bored with the daily putting drills prescribed by Dr Paul Hurrion, he need only watch the video of Sergio Garcia beating his own brains out at the Madrid Masters. It was horrible to see Garcia, one of the most majestic ball-strikers in golf, so badly humiliated on the greens at Centro Nacional de Golf.

Stripped of all confidence, he looked muddled, confused and, at times, utterly clueless about what was happening to him. Admittedly, the putting surfaces in Madrid became spiked-up and bobbly in late afternoon. Yet, no matter how accusingly Garcia looked at the line of each missed putt, the real problem lay elsewhere.

The figures for Sunday’s final round tell a tale of maddening incompetence by a player ranked at No 9 in the world. Garcia sublimely hit 17 greens in regulation that afternoon — then two-putted every single one of them. Astonishingly, of the 71 strokes which sent Garcia tumbling into a tie for 17th place in a tournament which he had led at half way, 36 of them were putts!

The likes of Tiger Woods and Padraig Harrington were born with an assassin’s touch around the green.

Garcia wasn’t so-blessed.

Neither was McIlroy — but Dr Hurrion, the English bio-mechanics expert who also works with Harrington, believes that through sound method and hard work a good putter can be made. If anything, McIlroy’s more exciting from tee to green than the mercurial Spaniard. He currently leads the Race to Dubai and the European Tour in stroke average (69.86), despite languishing in 109th place in the putting charts (17 behind Garcia) with 30 putts per round.

So for the past 14 months, McIlroy’s devoted one hour per day — not easy for a young lad with so much excitement in his life — to repetitive putting routines which Dr Hurrion expects will provide the 20-year-old with the feel for a good putt which should stand to him for the rest of his career.

Inevitably, it’s been mind-numbingly tedious but, at this stage of McIlroy’s career, method is the one sure way he has of avoiding the madness of Sergio Garcia.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/golf/mcilroy-can-learn-from-garciarsquos-putting-woes-14529017.html

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GEL ORA Putter voted a finalist : in Golf Europe Product Awards 2009

October 7th, 2009 | GEL Golf

The GEL Ora Putter was voted the third finalist in the Golf Club category in this year’s Product Awards at GOLF EUROPE which took place from 27th to 29th September in Munich, Germany.

The GEL Ora Putter, launched in 2009, is one of eight models from the GEL Paul Hurrion Signature Range which is co-designed by GEL Golf and putting guru Dr Paul Hurrion using unique groove and insert technology. The four models from the 2009 GEL Paul Hurrion putter range which also comprises the Quasso, Pondera and Vicis models were all represented at the exhibition by GEL’s German distributors, WB Compagnie.

First prize in the Golf Club category was awarded to the Honma “Perfect Switch”, an adjustable putter which can be customized to suit any situation by exchanging the putter head appropriate for the conditions, with the TaylorMade adidas R9 Irons securing second place.

“GEL is honoured to receive this award from GOLF EUROPE and delighted to earn such recognition in the industry after only just over two years in the extremely competitive putter market,” commented Alec Pettigrew, CEO of Hong Kong-based GEL Golf, manufacturers of the GEL Ora.

For the third year running the GOLF EUROPE Product Awards were presented to those products voted the most innovative for the forthcoming season. A total of 113 products from 54 brands were analyzed by a high-calibre jury that comprised of independent industry and retail experts as well as members of the press. The jury based their voting on the functional aspect, design, degree of innovation and ease of use of the products.

For further information on GEL Groove Putters, visit www.GELGolf.co.uk

For further information, please contact Helen Heady of Heady PR, on behalf of GEL Golf, on helen@headypr.co.uk or +44 7966 491 509.

GEL Golf & Paul Hurrion

The unique Groove and Insert Technology that GEL uses in its putters is based on scientific testing that has proved that the use of grooves in the putter face creates instant forward roll on the golf ball, thus reducing the unwelcome effects of skidding and giving a truer roll.

GEL’s precision-cut, horizontal aluminium face inserts give a softer and more responsive feel than the milled grooves of other groove putters whilst consultation with Tour professionals during the design process resulted in the GEL putters being designed with larger, heavier and more balanced heads, encouraging an even smoother and more rhythmical putting stroke.

Manufactured from 431 stainless steel with a Plated Black SQ finish with a sand blast face and coupled with its distinctive inserts and colourways, GEL has ensured that the putters look as great as they feel.

The GEL Paul Hurrion Signature Range uses even lighter aluminium inserts allowing weight to be distributed elsewhere in the putter head, pulling the centre of gravity up the putter face increasing forward roll. The Hurrion putters also incorporate tungsten weights to create MOI, and different shafts to reduce torque, particularly on miss-hits.

Hurrion, who has over 10 years of experience in sports biomechanics, has established independent testing company, Quintic, which provides a range of quality performance analysis software used at the highest levels in sport, health, and education across the world, and produces top-class coaching CDs.

The success of GEL putters, launched just over two years ago, can be measured by the fact that they have already enjoyed six Tour victories; one each on the Asian and Canadian Tours, two on the China Tour and one on The European Tour when American Anthony Kang won the 2009 Malaysian Open using a GEL Rego Putter. Most recently Wales’ Becky Brewerton won the Ladies Open de Espana on the Ladies European Tour using a GEL Rego Putter to hand GEL its sixth Tour.

www.GELGolf.co.uk and www.quintic.com

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Wilding Golf launches GEL Golf’s unique horizontal groove technology

September 3rd, 2009 | GEL Golf, Putting Biomechanics

Wilding Golf, Asia’s most advanced golf training and fitting centre founded by CEO Shane Wilding recently organised a media putting workshop to introduce the revolutionary range of GEL Putters with its unique horizontal groove technology as a sole distributor at its new Wilding Golf Performance Center, Bangkok, Thailand.

The event was attended by Alec Pettigrew, CEO of Groove Equipment Ltd and Dr Paul Hurrion, the co-designer of GEL Putter’s Signature Range, who presented a demonstration of a putting lesson as well as a GEL Fitting session.

Photo caption (from left): Dr Paul Hurrion, a co-designer of Signature GEL Putters, Shane Wilding founder and CEO of the Wilding Golf Performance Center, and Alec Pettigrew, CEO of Groove Equipment Ltd

About Wilding Golf:
Wilding Golf is one of the most widely recognised brands in the golf training market and renowned for the high quality of its products and services. The new Wilding Golf Performance Center features 12 Swing Bays with Golf Simulators, 2 Putting Studios and a VIP Corporate Suite complete with Asia’s ONLY 3D SimSurround Simulator. The center also includes an Equipment Performance Lab which features technology that helps match a golfer’s unique swing with the perfect equipment.

The Wilding Golf Performance Center @ Interchange Building (B2 Floor) is open everyday from 07.00 am till 11.00 pm. For more information, please call 02-6112552 or 6112553 or log-on to www.wildinggolf.com

For further information, please contact:
Chanpim Merakate
Public Relations Manager
Vivaldi Public Relations
Tel: 02 718 2191 Fax: 02 319 9303 Mobile: 081 425 7017
Email: chanpim.merakate@vivaldipr.com

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Brewerton bidding to top Henderson Money List

August 27th, 2009 | GEL Golf, ProStance, Putting Biomechanics

Helsinki, Finland – 27th August 2009

Solheim Cup star Becky Brewerton tees up at the Finnair Masters in Helsinki this week with a new goal in mind: to win the Ladies European Tour’s 2009 Henderson Money List.

The Welsh 26-year-old said: “At the start of the year a massive goal was to get into The Solheim and to win another tournament and I’ve done that already. Now looking at the position that I’m in, I have got a pretty good chance of winning the money list and that would be a huge thing to do. “That’s what my aim is for the rest of the season: to play in as many events as possible and keep doing well. While I’m confident I’ll keep playing as much as possible and hopefully try and win the money list.”

Brewerton – currently fifth on the LET’s Henderson Money List – finished equal seventh in Finland last year. This time she is determined to improve and with €145,669.48 already banked, largely thanks to her second LET win at the Open de Espana Femenino, a tie for 13th place at the Evian Masters and fourth place finish at the S4/C Wales Ladies Championship, she sits €127,946 behind top ranked Sophie Gustafson from Sweden.

This week’s €30,000 first prize would see her leapfrog Solheim Cup teammate Italian Diana Luna, who is taking the week off, into third position. However Norwegian Marianne Skarpnord, the current number four, is playing in the tournament. “I’m 30,000 behind Diana Luna at the moment so I could make that up this week with a win. Even if it wasn’t a (money list) win, if it was a top three, that gains you entry into a few extra tournaments next year. It’s a big thing,” she added.

With five top 10 finishes from her last eight tournaments, Brewerton has not been outside the top 20 places since May’s HVB Ladies German Open. She also intends to get off to a fast start in The 2011 Solheim Cup qualification process, which begins this week.

“I’m already just desperate to get to Ireland because I so want to win it more than anything and get some revenge,” said Brewerton, who won two points for the European team in their 16-12 defeat against the Americans at Rich Harvest Farms, Illinois, on Sunday.

“It’s a shame because we came so close and I don’t know if it came across to everyone how close it was in the end. After the front nine on the last day it looked like we were going to win. I think we gave them a good run for their money,” she added. Brewerton says she is reaping the rewards of the work she has put in on her short game with Dr. Paul Hurrion and on her swing with PGA professional Stewart Craig, part of a long overall process.

“I’ve just got to keep doing what I’ve been doing and play well and keep putting well because that’s what’s made the difference,” said Brewerton, who said she enjoyed the Helsinki course layout. “I think it suits me. The par fives, you can get up on in two. There are a lot of par fours where you can hit good drives and hit short shots into the greens,” she said.

The 5918 yard par 71 course at Helsinki Golf Club is hosting the €200,000 event for the fifth time and all four former champions are competing, namely Denmark’s Lisa Holm Sorensen (2005), Frenchwoman Virginie Lagoutte-Clement (2006), Germany’s Bettina Hauert (2007) and Finland’s Minea Blomqvist (2008).

Blomqvist and Brewerton are playing in a marquee group with Spaniard Paula Marti at 9am in the first round on Friday. Day one action begins at 8.30am 28th August 09.

http://host2.ladieseuropeantour.com:80/~ladies/content/let_article_item.php?Id=23217

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The GEL house rocks!

August 25th, 2009 | GEL Golf

Today’s Golfer - September 2009
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GEL Golf expands the Paul Hurrion Signature range…

August 4th, 2009 | GEL Golf, Putting Biomechanics

If you haven’t heard of GEL Golf yet, you’re missing out. They are quite simply, the most forward thinking golf company out there at the moment, full stop. GEL’s new range of putters are just awesome and now, they’re adding four more to into the mix… GEL has just launched four new models, the Ora, Pondera, Vicis and Quasso models which look absolutely stunning. The Ora is an absolute masterpiece in my opinion, beautiful.

Co-designed by GEL Golf and putting master Dr Paul Hurrion, the innovative putters are now available in the UK through GEL distributor, Assay Golf, via selected golf shops and the internet at www.GELGolf.co.uk at a recommended retail price of £185.

In an industry first, the GEL Paul Hurrion Signature Range comes equipped with a GEL True Temper Dynamic Gold S400 iron shaft - rather than a standard putter shaft. This means the club will twist far less on impact with the ball which will help keep you on-line. It also help you to experience increased feel and improved pace control.

The innovation has allowed Dr Hurrion to reposition weight around the perimeter of the putter head using a unique, inline weighting system with tungsten concealed in the putter head leading to a more rhythmic stroke, better response and high moment of inertia (MOI) for a truer roll.

As with his first four models, Hurrion’s new line features the multi-layer, horizontal grooves developed by GEL Golf that are milled at a precise angle onto a soft aluminium insert. The combination of these new technologies creates instant forward roll of the golf ball, reducing the effect of skidding providing a straighter roll off the ball immediately after it has been struck.

Tests prove that the roll of a golf ball immediately after it has been struck is the most crucial element in directing the ball towards the intended target illustrating clearly why groove putters outperform all others on the market. When we say ALL others - we mean ALL others.

“We’re very excited to be releasing additional models to our already-successful line of GEL putters,” said Alec Pettigrew, Managing Director of Groove Equipment Ltd. “With Paul’s expertise in putting and sports biomechanics, GEL has truly delivered a putter for golfers of all abilities.”

Hurrion brings with him over 10 years of research and development in sports biomechanics and is now recognized as one of the top putting coaches on The European Tour. Amongst others, he currently coaches three-time major winner Padraig Harrington, Rory McIlroy, Lee Westwood and recent LET winner, Becky Brewerton.

“Based on the success of the inaugural GEL Paul Hurrion Signature Range, I have designed four new models to help golfers continue to enjoy the key benefits tour players look for on the greens,” says Hurrion.

“A putter designed with horizontal grooves to impart forward roll, peripheral-weighting that maximizes the sweet spot across the putter face and heel-toe weighting to increase the MOI for improved resistance to twisting on off-centre hits creates stability at impact in the area of the game that matters most,” he concludes.

Since its launch in 2007, GEL Golf has firmly established itself as the number one groove putter on the Asian Tour and has already enjoyed six professional Tour wins; one each on The European, Asian and Canadian Tours and two on the China Tour plus one on the Ladies European Tour.

GEL offer truly top class putters and are currently in a league of their own. It’s just a matter of time until all the pros are using putters like these and taking training from bio-mechanics legend, Dr Hurrion.

Just as technology in drivers has changed the game, technology in putting is going to do the same with GEL Golf’s new putters. See our article “Forget everything you thought you knew about putting” for the full story.

Check out the company’s website at www.gelgolf.co.uk for more information or see the tech specs of the new putters below.

Dr. Paul Hurrion Signature Range Tech Specs:

ORA - (Edge)
A modified alignment, face-balanced blade with an inline weighting, a ‘crank-neck’ hosel and full shaft offset. Weight alignment arms create unique weight distribution within the putter face. Three-line alignment system squares the putter face to help focus the putter to the target. Loft 3.0 degrees. Lie 73 degrees. Standard shaft length: 33″ to 35″. 431 stainless steel material. (385gm head weight).

PONDERA - (Balance / Equilibrium)
A heel-toe, weighted mallet with a ‘crank-neck’ hosel and full shaft offset. A single alignment system squares the putter face to help focus the putter to the target. Loft 3.0 degrees. Lie 73 degrees. Standard shaft length: 33″ to 35″. 431 stainless steel material. (360gm head weight).

VICIS - (Time)
A heel-toe, weighted modified blade with a ‘crank-neck’ hosel and full shaft offset. Loft 3.0 degrees. Lie 73 degrees. Standard shaft length: 33″ to 35″. 431 stainless steel material. (365gm head weight).

QUASSO - (Break)
A heel-toe, weighted modified blade with a ‘crank-neck’ hosel and full shaft offset. Loft 3.0 degrees. Lie 73 degrees. Standard shaft length: 33″ to 35″. 431 stainless steel material. (350gm head weight).

http://www.findthefairways.com:80/golfnews/gel-golf-expands-its-epic-range-of-putters-in-2009-2190.html

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