Is Your Putter’s Face Perfectly Flat? Does it Have Precision Ground Grooves?

DeLaCruz Golf Designs hopes not; after all, they have filed a patent application covering a putter design with a precision ground face and precision ground grooves. The application states that conventional face milling leaves many small imperfections in the metal surface that can affect the angle at which a golf ball bounces off of the putter. The patent application published this week as US Pub. No. 20090291773 titled “Precision Ground Putter Face,” which contains the following drawings and description….. Well, at least I now have another excuse for my putting…. those small milling imperfections must be negatively influencing my putting!….

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Think Tiger Will Be Playing These Nike Irons?

Nike is at it again with another interesting iron design. They have definitely been challenging convention golf club design; click HERE and HERE to check out some recent posts on radical Nike designs. Today, a Nike patent application published as US Pub. No. 20090291772 titled “Golf Club and Golf Club Head with Interchangeable Body Component.” Check out this design….. So, do you think we will see these designs in the hands of any professionals?….

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Taylor Made’s Latest Adjustability Concept

Every golfer knows that “adjustability” is a key aspect to Taylor Made’s recent marketing. There is the widely known movable weight technology (MWT) and flight control technology (FCT), as well as the lesser known adjustable grip technology (AGT) that I wrote about last month (see the post HERE). This week a patent application published that may give us a look at their next level of adjustability, namely an adjustable sole. The following drawings come from the Taylor Made patent application that published as US Pub. No. 20090286619 titled “Golf Club.”….. Click HERE to compare the Taylor Made design with Acushnet’s interchangeable sole that was reported on back in September. Which do you like better?….

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Have You Ever Wondered if There is a Better Way to Connect a Shaft to a Golf Club Head? Bizarre Golf Club Patent of the Week

Have you ever considered why a shaft connects to a hosel? Ever spend a sleepless night wondering if there was a better way? Me neither, but that is probably why I am not a golf club designer and inventor. The inventors of USPN 6514153 titled “Golf Club Head” have definitely questioned the wisdom of the traditional shaft – to hosel – to club head body attachment strategy. Check out this design….. What do you think? Pure, or shank? Birdie, or bogey?…..

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Wrap Up of the Week of Wild Putter Designs

There are way too many wild putter designs to ever cover them all, but this week we have started to scratch the surface. As you have seen, most have some rational basis but take it to an often irrational extreme. In fact, at first blush many putter patents appear ridiculous, but if you really read them they make you scratch your head and wonder if there it something to it. This post’s putter is just one of those head scratchers. Check out the drawings, but then read the explanation before jumping to any conclusions….. What do you think, any merit to this?….

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Are You Ready for a Week Devoted to Wild Putter Designs?

Here comes a week made in heaven for putter enthusiasts. OK, that may be a stretch, but I am committing to a week of posts directed to unconventional putters. Yes, many will be entertaining, yet ridiculous, putters that never had a chance at making to the market, but there may be some containing interesting features that should have made it to the market.
Kicking off the Golf-Patents blog’s “Week of Wild Putter Designs” (that’s WWPD for all the golf “branding” experts that have to create an acronym for everything) is USPN 4846477 titled “Golf Putter.” Check out this beauty!….. I am willing to bet that a few hours of practice with this putter would improve my game.

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