griffgolf
Head Pro
Just seen on sky sports Luke Donald playing with a Taylormade R11 driver and using a Mizuno head cover.
I thought he was a Mizuno player.
I thought he was a Mizuno player.
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Luke Donald's driver
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A lot of player contracts these days are purely for the irons and maybe a fairway wood or wedge. Most drivers and putters are too personal and to be fair Mizzy have hardly set the world alight with their driver range
SammmeBee
Journeyman Pro
Maybe that's why he hits it nowhere.....needs to take the head cover off!!
griffgolf
Head Pro
LOL
MashieNiblick
Tour Winner
Or swap it for a Callaway Razr
richy
Journeyman Pro
I noticed this on my Ryder cup DVD during one of the practice rounds. Thought he was just trying it out tho. I think it was a super tri then.
Society_Fan
Head Pro
TM must be loving that, until he shot a 79 today!
drawboy
Tour Winner
He is contracted to play their irons,fairways and use their bags, he chooses his own driver and putter. No one would sign to use their drivers.
Split_Fairway
Assistant Pro
i dont know about that their mp-630 and preceding mp-600 seemed pretty good. its just the reputation they've garnered for their woods is making people shy away from them
drawboy
Tour Winner
I had a mizzy mx560 it was awesome it had a grafalloy prolaunch blue shaft, loved it. Traded it for a mp600, that was truly awfull. If I could get another mx560 with the grafalloy shaft i'd snap someones hand off for it, but I've never been able to track another one down.
I'm not saying their woods aren't good but they never seem to push that much R&D into them compared with the other parts of their club design which is probably why they don't have many tour players using them. To be honest I don't know what the take up is on the Asian tour but I guess it still wouldn't be the number 1 brand in use (or even #2)
Albanach
Head Pro
The reason that mizuno don't have a lot of players on club contracts is cash. Mizuno don't and are not willing to pay the same amount of money to players as the likes of callaway or tm. Now I am a bit of a mizuno pervert with irons and I love my mp001 3 wood and mp630 driver. As for noone hitting their woods I'm pretty sure chris wood switched to an mp630 fast track driver last year.
drawboy
Tour Winner
AS far as I know Chris signed to play their irons only, and wear their cap which he wasn't happy about as he doesn't like wearing a hat. I may be wrong but I think he uses a Titleist driver.
http://www.golftoday.co.uk/proshop/features/2010/chris_wood_swing_sequence.html
http://www.golftoday.co.uk/proshop/features/2010/chris_wood_swing_sequence.html
Yes Chris Wood is using the MP630 fastrack.
A lot of the pros have a selected club deals for instance Just irons bag hat etc. Some Irons, wedges, bag, hat etc.
Paddy uses any driver that will work at the moment, poss using a TM driver at the moment and was using and old TM burner 3/ 5 woods.
Luke did dabble with the MP600 when it came out but then the TM r9 came out and everman and his dog switched to that. I bet he gets money out of Tm for using it as well.
A lot of the pros have a selected club deals for instance Just irons bag hat etc. Some Irons, wedges, bag, hat etc.
Paddy uses any driver that will work at the moment, poss using a TM driver at the moment and was using and old TM burner 3/ 5 woods.
Luke did dabble with the MP600 when it came out but then the TM r9 came out and everman and his dog switched to that. I bet he gets money out of Tm for using it as well.
surefire
Challenge Tour Pro
As well as the deals mentioned above, companies often pay pros a one off amount to tee up with there club.
For example if TaylorMade want to top the Darrel survey for a particular category like drivers, they will make a one off payment of $1000 to every non contracted pro who uses their driver on the Thursday when the survey is done.
Same applies to Cleveland with wedges and Scotty Cameron with putters.
For example if TaylorMade want to top the Darrel survey for a particular category like drivers, they will make a one off payment of $1000 to every non contracted pro who uses their driver on the Thursday when the survey is done.
Same applies to Cleveland with wedges and Scotty Cameron with putters.
Marko77
Q-School Graduate
If I worked for Taylor Made I wouldn't be happy at him putting a rival's headcover on my product. If I'm paying him to use a product, he can advertise it too.
TonyN
Money List Winner
He probably isn't getting paid to use the R11, probably doesn't pay for it, but I would imagine there is no contract for the driver!
