Some Golf Club Inventions Make Me Shake My Head and Say…. Even If It Were USGA Conforming, There is No Way This Club Would Help My Game
That is just what I said when I came across one rather unique golf club disclosed in recently published patent application US Pub. No. 20080132349 titled “Golf Club Head having Concavely Curved Face.” Check out these drawings!
The application describes the invention as:
A golf club, particularly a “putter” or “chipper”, is provided with a concave ball striking face that establishes line contact with a golf ball rather than the usual point contact and enhances the capability of a user to control the direction of ball movement resulting from a golf stroke. The concave ball striking surface may be curved and may have the same or greater curvature than the curvature of a golf ball and may have smoothly and gently merging surface regions of compound curvature. The concave ball striking face surface may have compound regions including a curved region and a planar region being smoothly and gently merged. The concave ball striking surface may be defined on an integral metal club head structure or may be defined by a polymer insert that is recessed into an insert receiving receptacle of the club head. Additionally, the face portion of a golf club head may have a recessed face to further aid in training and to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of ball movement resulting from a golf stroke.
Would you make room in your bag for this club?
David Dawsey – The Golf Invention Lawyer
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