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kennay92 Great Member

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why are their clubs so expensive? one driver is nearly 1,000 bucks.

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bbedell Well Established Member

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according to the US Open announcer on NBC, they spent nearly $1 million designing and developing Ishikawa's driver. This kind of money investment into product development might have something to do with why their equipment costs so much

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according to the US Open announcer on NBC, they spent nearly $1 million designing and developing Ishikawa's driver. This kind of money investment into product development might have something to do with why their equipment costs so much

heard that too, which made me look what clubs he has, which made me look at the price of them, which made me make this thread lol.

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I heard he rolls with 12 people when he plays. Takes his own personal chef with him too.

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bbedell Well Established Member

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I heard he rolls with 12 people when he plays. Takes his own personal chef with him too.

Ishikawa - the 18 year old mullet sporting, tourist resembling Japanese kid - rolls with a posse? Now I've officially seen/heard everything.

Think I read your mind on his one Kennay. BTW very nice avatar...I'm a fan too in case you hadnt noticed ;)

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taylormade.gifSuperfast TP 10.5° Matrix HD6 graphite stiff shaft
nike.gifSasQuatch 2 Steel #3 Wood: 15° Diamana SasQuatch Graphite
cobra.gifBaffler DWS Hybrid Utility Woods: 3/R 20°
cobra.gifS2 Forged irons 4-PW stiff flex steel shaftcleveland.gifCG15 satin chrome 48° gap wedge 8 bouncemizuno.gifMP T Series chrome 53° sand...cleveland.gifnike.gifbridgestone.giftaylormade.gif

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delav Great Member

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Ishikawa - the 18 year old mullet sporting, tourist resembling Japanese kid - rolls with a posse? Now I've officially seen/heard everything.

Just think. Plaid & Mullets R Us rolls with a posse, al of which have likely met Gulbis. Puts things in perspective for the life of a forum dweller.... sigh...

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Weezy Established Member

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Well he doesn't have a mullet, i used to race mx and am from eastern ky so i am a certified mullet expert, sadly. Basically if he shaved only the top part of his hair, or cut it very short in comparison to the back of his hair, then it would be a mullet. He just has long hair all over unlike fowler or mcilroy who cut the hair after it gets to their neckline. I am pretty sure most of us can say our driver's have a million dollars in R and D also its just not advertised as such. I think phil said it cost something like 10,000 dollars just to make the forgings for his old x tour iron heads which doesn't take into account r and d for the irons at all.

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I'd bet Yonex is banking on rich Japanese golfers jumping on the Ishikawa bandwagon, as they know they're never going to take on the Taylormades and Callaways of the world in terms of sales volume. Heck, i think their only other tour player is Colin Montgomerie....i doubt many folks these days run to their golf shop so they can play Monty's clubs!

Used or clearance Yonex equipment usually can be had for dirt cheap btw. I have a set of Yonex Cyberstar 280 irons that i actually liked quite a bit (purchased from Rockbottom for i think $170-ish); game improvement to be sure, but actually looked pretty traditional at address, and had very little offset despite their larger clubheads. Uniflex shafts were too whippy for me, and of course instead of getting them reshafted i opted to buy yet another set of irons!

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Well he doesn't have a mullet, i used to race mx and am from eastern ky so i am a certified mullet expert, sadly. Basically if he shaved only the top part of his hair, or cut it very short in comparison to the back of his hair, then it would be a mullet. He just has long hair all over unlike fowler or mcilroy who cut the hair after it gets to their neckline. I am pretty sure most of us can say our driver's have a million dollars in R and D also its just not advertised as such. I think phil said it cost something like 10,000 dollars just to make the forgings for his old x tour iron heads which doesn't take into account r and d for the irons at all.

Have to disagree with you there. Traditionally, the mullet is described as a haircut that is short in the front and long in the back (aka SFLB, aka business in the front, party in the back) which is what Ryo has going on right now. It might not be the traditional southern version where you often find the sides cut very short, but nevertheless it is indeed a mullet. I consider myself a bonafide mullet hunter, and I would snap a picture of that 'do any day!

Oh, and I refuse to believe that that guy or anyone in his posse has had the privilege of meeting my sweet, swet Natalie G.

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taylormade.gifSuperfast TP 10.5° Matrix HD6 graphite stiff shaft
nike.gifSasQuatch 2 Steel #3 Wood: 15° Diamana SasQuatch Graphite
cobra.gifBaffler DWS Hybrid Utility Woods: 3/R 20°
cobra.gifS2 Forged irons 4-PW stiff flex steel shaftcleveland.gifCG15 satin chrome 48° gap wedge 8 bouncemizuno.gifMP T Series chrome 53° sand...cleveland.gifnike.gifbridgestone.giftaylormade.gif

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golfro Great Member

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Just to clarify with some folks... a lot of people in Asia don't even play Taylormade or Nike or Titleist. Asian brands like Yonex and Mizuno dominate those markets moreso than American brands. Yonex is an absolute giant in the Asian golf market.

Yonex popularity goes much further back than recent Ishikawa popularity.

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Weezy Established Member

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Have to disagree with you there. Traditionally, the mullet is described as a haircut that is short in the front and long in the back (aka SFLB, aka business in the front, party in the back) which is what Ryo has going on right now. It might not be the traditional southern version where you often find the sides cut very short, but nevertheless it is indeed a mullet. I consider myself a bonafide mullet hunter, and I would snap a picture of that 'do any day!

I think his hair is all the same length. Meaning the hair on top if you stretched it out would be the same lenth as the hair in the back, he just doesn't cut the hair down around his neckline. Its a pseudo mullet i suppose. Mullet hunter is my favorite part of the mx mags, think it was racer x that always had some awesome ones. My friend's dad had a serious southern style mullet with his son's number bleached into the long part in the back. It was awesome!

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motteler621 Great Member

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Just to clarify with some folks... a lot of people in Asia don't even play Taylormade or Nike or Titleist. Asian brands like Yonex and Mizuno dominate those markets moreso than American brands. Yonex is an absolute giant in the Asian golf market.

well Phil Mickelson use to play Yonex. I remember those days, thats when I started lookiing up Yonex clubs and found they were 1,000's of dollars, I use to think they were something special because of the price tag.

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kurisu Well Established Member

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I can walk into any golf store here in Japan and see Yonex drivers ("NANOV" head, same as Ishikawa) being sold starting at about 30,000 yen, so it's very much in line with every other brand (short of Honma and PRGR). They do not have a big presence in the US be it for badminton equipment or others, and that most certainly explains why they're not sold for cheap over there.
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golfro Great Member

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well Phil Mickelson use to play Yonex. I remember those days, thats when I started lookiing up Yonex clubs and found they were 1,000's of dollars, I use to think they were something special because of the price tag.

they're definitely not cheap. My mom in Korea plays pretty much all Yonex and her entire set including woods, irons, wedges, etc cost her well over $2000. They're not cheap...but nothing is cheap in Korea other than food.

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kurisu Well Established Member

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In the same line, i.e. Nanov SD, an iron set (#5~#9 + PW) seems to start at 52,000 yen with a NS Pro 950 GH shaft.
I'm not a Yonex fan though so I assume this is the GI line by looking at the specs.
The "Nanov forged" set is starting at 82,000 yen.
Again this is pretty much in line with other brands here. I got my 710 AP1 (the #5~#9+PW) for 60,000 yen back when they were released in Nov. 2009.
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they're definitely not cheap. My mom in Korea plays pretty much all Yonex and her entire set including woods, irons, wedges, etc cost her well over $2000. They're not cheap...but nothing is cheap in Korea other than food.

The current JPY KRW exchange rate most certainly doesn't help

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