Nike Wants To Break Your Wrists

Source: The IP Golf Guy – The Golf Patent Lawyer (Golf Inventions, Patents, Litigation, Trademarks): A Method of Analyzing Your Swing That Is Unlike Anything You Have Ever Seen

SirShanksAlot Comments: Nike felt that the impact bag required updating for modern times apparently, with their latest patent for what can be best described as a ballistics jelly swing analyzer. Looks painful! Check out more pictures at the link above. What do you think about this patent?

 

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Callaway's Odd Hosel Patents

Source: The IP Golf Guy – The Golf Patent Lawyer (Golf Inventions, Patents, Litigation, Trademarks): A Third Unique Hosel Design Patent for Callaway

SirShanksAlot Comments: This is now the third patent from Callaway that we’ve seen with a unique hosel design. I don’t know what to make of these, they could be wings, they could be also be used for leverage to unscrew the head(maybe?). Regardless, keep an eye out for these on Callaway’s in the near the future. Enjoy the pics below. Click the link above to see more patent pics.

 

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Nike's Golf Ball Patent That Bites!

Source: The IP Golf Guy – The Golf Patent Lawyer (Golf Inventions, Patents, Litigation, Trademarks): Nike Golf’s New Tiger Ball? It Has Teeth

SirShanksAlot Comments: These patent pictures are interesting, and confusing at the same time. There’s plenty more over at Dave Dawsey’s site to view as well, if you’re interested. In a nutshell, Nike R&D appears to be coming up with creative and innovative dimple patterns to take their golf balls to the next level. Is this what’s next for Nike? Cool stuff!

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Rumor: Adams Golf 9098LD Driver

An interesting little tidbit of information.  Jamie Sadlowski, a Re-max long-drive champ was recently at Adams Golf HQ, where he tweeted he was testing the new 9098LD driver and was going to ask about posting pics.  The tweet has since disappeared from his thread, and no pics ever were shared. Maybe he shared something he shouldn’t have??

If last year’s 9064LS models is any indication of timing on the release date of this model – we may just see by the end of summer.  Keep an eye out!

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