Club Manufacturers Are Starting to Design for the Fact That Most Golfers Don’t Hit the Ball in the Center of the Club Face
It is hard to believe that it has been over two years since I posted Club Face Adjustability, Is It The Next Big Thing about an Acushnet patent directed to variable driver face stiffness. That post was even a follow-up to one a year earlier titled The Next Step in Club Head Adjustability regarding a prior Acushnet patent directed to coefficient of restitution (COR) adjustability, or the ability to adjust the stiffness of club’s face. Well, apparently it is a concept that is also of interest to Nike Golf, as this week they had a patent application publish titled “Golf Club Head or Other Ball Striking Device Having a Reinforced or Localized Stiffened Face Portion,” which describes the invention as…. Who knows, maybe one of these will actually make it to the market in the next few years!….
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