There is no doubt that Dick’s is a major force in golf equipment retailing, yet I was still surprised this week to see that they had a patent application publish that is directed to a club head design.

The patent application published as US Pub. No. 201000041495 titled “Golf Driver Head with Exchangeable Rear Sections,” which describes the invention as:

A golf driver kit includes a front portion and a plurality of rear portions exchangeably connectable to the front portion and being of different respective shapes for imparting different flight characteristics to a struck golf ball. The front portion includes a front face plate and a hosel for receiving a shaft, plus a rearwardly projecting base on which the rear portion is seated. The rear portion is removably attached to the front portion by screws.

Check out their club head invention:












Interesting, very interesting. Look’s like the OEM’s may soon have more competition.

It does make you wonder how long it will be before walking into a golf retailer will be like walking into a grocery store. Will each name brand product will have a very similar "house brand" product for sale right beside it (for 30% less)? Perhaps a little chart will even compare the ingredients.... yes, the house brand is all titanium; yes, the house brand has an MOI of 5000; yes, the house brand....

Dave Dawsey  - Monitoring Golf Club Technology

PS - Yes, I will finish "The Week of Karsten" at some point; the posts are very time consuming and not many people were reading them, so I got burned-out and needed a break.