Ryan Moore w Ping Irons

[motteler621]

Ryan Moore playing with the new Ping irons in the asian pacific classic this week/weekend. What happened with his scratch irons?

[DarkPrince]

That I know of he's not contracted to use 100% scratch equipment, just like any other pro it may just be a number requirement. If I remember right he mentioned that instead of being paid to use their equipment he instead asked to become a part owner or something of the company as well to be involved in the R&D; side as well as the face of the company. Lots of players have say a Taylormade driver, Ping 3 wood, Adams hybrids, Taylormade irons,Titelist Vokey Wedges, and some brand of putter regardless of sponsor company.

[motteler621]

  DarkPrince said:

That I know of he's not contracted to use 100% scratch equipment, just like any other pro it may just be a number requirement. If I remember right he mentioned that instead of being paid to use their equipment he instead asked to become a part owner or something of the company as well to be involved in the R&D; side as well as the face of the company. Lots of players have say a Taylormade driver, Ping 3 wood, Adams hybrids, Taylormade irons,Titelist Vokey Wedges, and some brand of putter regardless of sponsor company.

yea I believe he is a part owner and has alot of input and say into the company. Looks kind of bad though when your not playing their irons especially when thats Scratch's bread and butter.

I dont know any Taylormade sponsored folks playing with a titleist or Ping Driver for that matter because Taylormades bread and butter is their drivers.

[xxsoultonesxx]

Which Ping irons are those? Anser? s56?

[motteler621]

the new s56

[erock9174]

Maybe he is doing some R&D; (i.e. playing new clubs to get ideas for Scratch).

[delav]

Hard to tell from the photo if those are indeed S-56s. Look similar but not quite spot on, could be a scratch proto as well?

[motteler621]

  delav said:

Hard to tell from the photo if those are indeed S-56s. Look similar but not quite spot on, could be a scratch proto as well?

other pics of them, they show a ping grip,lol

[Slappy9]

Maybe he's playing on of the Ping CB long irons that he used for awhile to get more forgiveness over one of his Scatch blades.

[motteler621]

  Slappy9 said:

Maybe he's playing on of the Ping CB long irons that he used for awhile to get more forgiveness over one of his Scatch blades.

thats not a long iron in his hands, its pretty clear its the new ping s56 irons. I guess this year he played like a brand new different set of scratch irons for each tournament. I think he just likes to switch around alot.

hes been quoted as saying that he doesnt want the normal contract under a company where he is getting paid more to play their clubs than actually playing golf because he didnt feel the pressure to actually play good when he was sponsored by ping and oakley. If he lost then it was ok, or if he didnt make this putt it was ok because he was getting a 3 figure salary from a sponsor on the side. so he didnt want a sponsor. In fact I watched it say that, so maybe thats why he doesnt want to feel bound to play only one companies irons

[enis750]

Ryan is a big ol club "HO"
if i had to guess, as a long time PING staff member
tinkering w the new S56's to try an incorporate some ideas for his next set of Scratch irons

as a part owner of Scratch, not a bad idea
they make nice irons, but i think could use some new technology...even if they have to borrow from PING !! hahah!

[motteler621]

  enis750 said:

Ryan is a big ol club "HO"

lol, is that legal. Thats like back in the day when american eagle started coping every design that abercrombie came out with because they couldnt start their own designs, lol. Abercrombie sued them

[delav]

  motteler621 said:

lol, is that legal. Thats like back in the day when american eagle started coping every design that abercrombie came out with because they couldnt start their own designs, lol. Abercrombie sued them

I'll have to ask my younger sister about that one.

[enis750]

  motteler621 said:

lol, is that legal. Thats like back in the day when american eagle started coping every design that abercrombie came out with because they couldnt start their own designs, lol. Abercrombie sued them

look at TM's invention...the R9

how many other adjustable drivers are out there now???

[motteler621]

  enis750 said:

look at TM's invention...the R9

thats true

[motteler621]

  delav said:

I'll have to ask my younger sister about that one.

lol, this was like 10 years ago. I read it in the news one time, u dont read the news? its stil widely known

il admit it thought back 10 years ago sophmore year in high school etc. I wore abercrombie and american eagle stuff it didnt have the stigma following back then. In fact I still wear some amercian eagle stuff. the girls definitly liked it, lol

[shades9323]

  enis750 said:

look at TM's invention...the R9

S. God produced the first adjustable driver. The Nike version came out around the same time as the R9. TM was definately not the trendsetter here.

[Shorty]

  DarkPrince said:

That I know of he's not contracted to use 100% scratch equipment, just like any other pro it may just be a number requirement. If I remember right he mentioned that instead of being paid to use their equipment he instead asked to become a part owner or something of the company as well to be involved in the R&D; side as well as the face of the company. Lots of players have say a Taylormade driver, Ping 3 wood, Adams hybrids, Taylormade irons,Titelist Vokey Wedges, and some brand of putter regardless of sponsor company.

It's a bit different when you don't have any confidence in the clubs of the company you are a part owner of. Scratch make irons. At least now we might be spared some comments on how "cool" these clubs are because Moore obviously no longer thinks they are. Still trying to work out what could make a golf club "cool" though........

  motteler621 said:

lol, is that legal. Thats like back in the day when american eagle started coping every design that abercrombie came out with because they couldnt start their own designs, lol. Abercrombie sued them

It's not even happening, so why are we running with this idea just because someone here speculated?