Two Clubs Worth Seeing, Not Hitting

Source: Golf Inventions, Patents, and Technology via The IP Golf Guy (aka The Golf Patent Attorney): Would it Work? Driver Head with “Flowing Moving Part SirShanksAlot Comments: Our friend over had golf-patents.com got these next two patents right when he labeled these next few patents “would it work”.  Both these patents feature movable parts. The first …

Source: Golf Inventions, Patents, and Technology via The IP Golf Guy (aka The Golf Patent Attorney): Would it Work? Driver Head with “Flowing Moving Part

SirShanksAlot Comments: Our friend over had golf-patents.com got these next two patents right when he labeled these next few patents “would it work”.  Both these patents feature movable parts. The first a steel ball bearing that sits inside the club cavity that will impact the back of the clubface the moment of impact. My opinion?  Have you ever heard a rattle in your shaft from loose epoxy glue? This would be much worse.

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The next patent features a tube of liquid (mercury apparently) that will pool on the toe or heel of the club on off-center hits.

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While both these patents are cool, I think they suffer from the same flaw.  In the split-second (technically about 0.0005 of a second) during impact, the steel ball will still be mid-air in the clubhead, and the mercury fluid will have moved such a minuscule amount that it would make absolutely no difference.  I’m not even going to talk about centrifugal forces… back to the drawing board.