Bizarre Golf Club Patent of the Week

I come across so many bizarre patents directed to golf clubs that I have decided to feature one such patent every week or two. The Golf-Patents blog is generally dedicated to current happenings in the world of golf intellectual property, but this new category allows me to cover some wonderfully interesting designs from the past.

The crazy patent of the week is USPN 5224702 titled “Offset Hosel Golf Club.” Check out this design:

The patent, which issued in 1993, describes the invention as:

An angled hosel golf club wherein the hosel is located on the back of the clubhead away from the face and is angled toward the face of the clubhead at a predetermined angle which aids in preventing slicing or hooking of a golf ball. The face of the head is thus located forwardly of the hosel and the tip of the shaft extends through the hosel and clubhead to the bottom of the clubhead at a point from 1-1/4 to 1-3/4 inches to the outermost projection of the club face. The offset hosel golf club is characterized by a conventional face loft and lie and due to the offset location of the hosel on the clubhead, metal which is used to conform the club to a desired weight may be placed in the clubhead between the shaft and the face, thereby facilitating rotation of the clubhead toward the target and aiding wrist rotation at the point of impact.

Think you could hit this club?

Dave Dawsey  – Keeping an Eye on Weird Patents

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