It is not very often that I look at an iron design and it takes my breath away. I actually said “what the heck” when I saw the drawings from a patent application that published yesterday. The application published as US Pub. No. 20070135233 titled “Golf Iron Club.”

The application describes the invention as:

The invention relates generally to golfing equipment but more particularly to iron clubs and presents an improved golf iron club comprising a shaft base for inserting a shaft and a head; a face having three rounded modules which are a left module, a middle module, a right module, and an oblong island; all three said modules having a perimeter; the middle module having an insert; at least one micro gap separating the insert from the perimeter; impact energy generated when hitting a ball on the face of the iron club is directed towards the perimeters and then projected onto the face of the iron club to provide additional energy directed at the golf ball.

An iron with three rounded modules and an oblong island… what? Check out these figures from the application.

I have to give kudos to the inventor for such an unconventional design, but I would be surprised if these ever make it into a pro shop.

Dave Dawsey - Watching Golf Iron Inventions