Finally, Someone Has Incorporated a Tennis Racquet into a Golf Club!

How many times have you heard a golfer say “that’s it, I’m taking up tennis?” Well, now we can have the best of both sports. Today a patent application published as US Pub. No. 20100248859 titled “Soft Golf Club Head,” which is a title that quickly got my attention. The application describes the perfect marriage of tennis and golf….. All I can say is….. “hummm, interesting?”….

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A Window Inside the Future of Nike Irons? Nike Air Irons Would Get Some Attention

Over the past two and a half years I have posted a couple of times (here and here ) about Nike’s fluid filled iron designs. Well, last week another Nike patent application was published that discloses a variation in the design, namely a design that includes a “window” to view the fluid filled bladder. Check this out!…. That has the potential to be pretty cool, not to mention that it would be a neat piece of cross-branding…..

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Can Golf Club Designers Solve Our Psychological Problems? Perhaps

Back in January I posted about a newly issued PING putter design patent that issued revealing a very unique putter design that looked like the bottom of the cup. Since it was a design patent we didn’t get to learn about the putter’s benefits. Well, this week the associated utility patent application was published as US Pub. No. 20100227704 titled “Golf Club Head and Method of Providing Same,” and may provide some insight (or not). The application explains….. Let’s all say it at once, “no s##t!” Yes, that is easy for us to say, but the bottom line is that they recognized a problem and one way of potentially solving it in a unique way. Kudos to the designers at Karsten! I think it is a pretty cool idea that would most likely sell. Check it out!…. I like this better than most new putter designs! A nice bit of creativity…..

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Not a Bad Golf Bag Invention

An interesting golf bag invention was patented this week, but does anyone still use single strap carry bags? The patent issued as USPN 7789279 titled “Golf Bag Supplementary Arrangement,” which describes the invention as…. Good idea, but I am just not convinced that many single strap golf bags are sold now days…..

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