Padraig Harrington signs for Footjoy

Trampas

Padraig will no longer wearing Hi-tec as he signs a new deal with Footjoy

http://www.footjoyblog.com/2009/01/01/footjoy-welcomes-padraig-harrington/

kagni

Didn't Padraig claim last year that the Hi-Tec shoes he was wearing added 15 yards to his tee shots. I wonder how much further he will hit his drives with the Foot Joys

ShriekingSheet

Is he still with Kartel?

There was (apparently) a quote floating around from the MD of Kartel after his second win that they've no chance of keeping him now but the rumour was also that he was going to stick with them for supporting him in his early days. Again I can't confirm this but think PH is a shareholder in Kartel also - something they offered him to encourage such loyalty.

Fair play to him if this is the case.
Even if he does go to Nike or whoever he's put a serious shift in for them anyway.

Mister Sifter

Yeah he stuck with Kartel. By the sounds of it he turned down money to go elsewhere in favour of staying put. Hats off to him for that!

I think he also signed on again with Wilson. But he did also sign a big deal with a large US financial firm and he'll have their logo on his cap front from now on.

ShriekingSheet

Graeme1982 wrote: »

Yeah he stuck with Kartel. By the sounds of it he turned down money to go elsewhere in favour of staying put. Hats off to him for that!

Almost a terrible, terrible pun there Graeme

Yeah I think it's safe to say he would have had advances from Addidas/Taylormade, probably Callway and possibly even Nike aswell.

I don't think anyone would hold it against him if he takes something up but fairplay to him for sticking with those who stuck with him in the many years before he was anywhere near the Ryder Cup team.

Mister Sifter

The shoes look pretty nice too...

http://www.golf-monthly.co.uk/tours-and-news/tournews/296778/gallery-first-look-at-the-new-footjoy-synr-g-lizard.html

soundsham

thank god those hi-tec's looked awful....big huge things but maybe its the 10 past ten walk he has as my granny used to call it that made them look awful

hope someone dresses him a bit better too.....................
sometimes i wonder is it worse to be like poulter who makes the effort to attract attention or like harrington who looks like he just dont care

Eireannach

I'll take a winner who puts victories before appearances any day.

Mister Sifter

soundsham wrote: »

thank god those hi-tec's looked awful....big huge things but maybe its the 10 past ten walk he has as my granny used to call it that made them look awful

hope someone dresses him a bit better too.....................
sometimes i wonder is it worse to be like poulter who makes the effort to attract attention or like harrington who looks like he just dont care

Par72

Graeme1982 wrote: »

Lmfao! That bit about the ten past ten walk is so true though. I always thought the hi-tecs were rotten looking shoes. Hi-tec runners weren't up to much either though.

HuntingDrog

"eeerrrrrrhhhhhhhh whats good for me, is good for my game!"

soundsham

Eireannach wrote: »

I'll take a winner who puts victories before appearances any day.

relax Eireannach,
only a bit of banter no one is talking about the mans skills, but you have to admit some times it looks like he got dressed by someone from the blind asylum..

by the way my cholesterol is down to 4.2

joanmul

Eireannach wrote: »

I'll take a winner who puts victories before appearances any day.

Hear Hear!

irishtoffee

I have a pair of those Hi tec shoes and they are some comfy and look great.

ImDave

This might have been discussed before, but what do you all make of Harrington and Wilson? Does anyone know the status of his contract with them? Personally I have never understood how he is still playing Wilson.

Sandwich

ImDave wrote: »

Personally I have never understood how he is still playing Wilson.

Why not? He has been very successful with them and its not as if he is going to be swayed by marketing like the average hacker.
Heard him interviewed sometime last year after he renewed the contract. Said that if his game deteriorated following a change he would would always be plagued by the doubt that the change was what sparked a loss of form. And that he prefered not to tamper with what has been working.

At this stage for him its not about money anymore (although I sure his deal with Wilson was a nice jump from his previous one), but victories, particulalry majors.

Mister Sifter

ImDave wrote: »

This might have been discussed before, but what do you all make of Harrington and Wilson? Does anyone know the status of his contract with them? Personally I have never understood how he is still playing Wilson.

He can't afford them. He said a while back he's saving up for a set of Titleists...

stockdam

At least he won't have sweaty feet now.

whocares86

the reason Harrington is staying with Wilson is beacuse he is their main player, he has an input into the design of their clubs, if he had gone to Callaway he wouldnt have been the main guy

WHIP IT!

whocares86 wrote: »

the reason Harrington is staying with Wilson is beacuse he is their main player, he has an input into the design of their clubs, if he had gone to Callaway he wouldnt have been the main guy

Who'd be their main guy?

Also, Harrington has won three majors and played the best golf of his life with Wilson so that surely has much to do with it.

Payne Stewart and Colin Montgomerie are just two players to cost themselves Wins and form by going to unsuitable equipment suppliers...

Trampas

WHIP IT! wrote: »

Who'd be their main guy?

Also, Harrington has won three majors and played the best golf of his life with Wilson so that surely has much to do with it.

Payne Stewart and Colin Montgomerie are just two players to cost themselves Wins and form by going to unsuitable equipment suppliers...

Woosie was the same. Went for the bucks instead of the club that suits.

I look at Monty and the clubs he use and wonder why he ever went to them apart from money

WHIP IT!

Trampas wrote: »

Woosie was the same. Went for the bucks instead of the club that suits.

I look at Monty and the clubs he use and wonder why he ever went to them apart from money

In Payne Stewart's biography, written by his wife I think, it explains how after shifting suppliers (I want to say to Spalding, but I could be wrong) and getting locked into a contract obliging him to use clubs he couldn't play with, it almost ruined his career.

Mister Sifter

I find it ridiculous, and slightly disappointing too, that players who are multi-millionaires will jeapordise their game in order to pocket a few extra quid from a manufacturer.

WHIP IT!

Graeme1982 wrote: »

I find it ridiculous, and slightly disappointing too, that players who are multi-millionaires will jeapordise their game in order to pocket a few extra quid from a manufacturer.

Me too - I mean how much more could Yonex (for example, and I don't mean to pick on Monty) have offered as opposed to say, Titlest, Callaway etc??

Trampas

Any other pros use Yonex? I have never even seen anyone play with them even in opens or club comps

found one

http://www.yonex.com/golf/advisory_staff/ryo_ishikawa.html

ShriekingSheet

On the Wilson topic,

Has anyone actually picked up the set that Harrington is using? They're in the kind of MP-57 ball-park, maybe thinner but absoultely beautiful. I got a demo one while chosing my irons and loved it but, like the Mizunos & co, felt they were too bladey for me.

As for the driver, he reportedly loves it. In fairness, a good big titanium head is not hard to come by. When you have the tour van there to set it up as regards shaft and weighting exactly how you like it, it doesn't really matter what logo is on the sole and the head cover.

Any suggestion that he's a) using clubs that are inferior to what other guys are using or b) losing out on cash by staying with Wilson is ridiculous IMO.

Wilson's only real weakness is that they're an extremely uncool brand.

...like he gives a sh*t